"Works of art aren't what they seem always."
Curator Maryam Ekhtiar on a Goa stone enclosed in an ornate gold case.
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Why is this imitation gallstone held in such an extravagant case?
"Works of art aren’t what they seem always."
Maryam Ekhtiar
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Maryam Ekhtiar
Patti Cadby Birch Curator, Department of Islamic Art
Patti Cadby Birch Curator, Department of Islamic Art
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late 17th–early 18th century