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The Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 32 (1997)

THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 32

"A Room of 'Splendor and Generosity' from Ottoman Damascus"

Daskalakis Mathews, Annie-Christine

1997

29 pages

This title is out of print.

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About the authors

Annie-Christine Daskalakis Mathews

Met Art in Publication

Damascus Room, Wood (poplar) with gesso relief, gold and tin leaf, glazes and paint; wood (cypress, poplar, and mulberry), mother-of-pearl, marble and other stones, stucco with glass, plaster ceramic tiles, iron, brass — Damascus Room
dated 1119 AH/1707 CE

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