Goobi - ba0d8 - 2020-08-02 18:16:45+0000
Goobi
Pair of doors with ivory inlay.
These two doors contain a central design of carved ivory and wooden elements, which have been salvaged from an older pair (probably from a minbar, or pulpit), and re-mounted in modern frames. This type of composite reconstruction was an important woodworking industry in nineteeth-century Cairo, and represented a combination of fragment salvage and historicist imitation. The industry continued into the twentieth century. Few of the original decorative segments remain here, and the joiner has carved new "replacement" panels to fill up the geometric pattern. When closed together, the pair of doors create a single twelve-sided polygon in their central design.
Two door (matching pair), wood frame with carved wood (unidentified) and ivory inlays, metal lock and hinges, each with main vertical panel of three half dodecagons (offset) with central radiating stars, smaller ivory-outlined panels at top and bottom, probably Cairo, Egypt, some of the carved ivory foliate panels and outline border ivory elements c. 1400-1450, later replacement inserts and main door frame possibly c. 1900-1930
Pair of doors
Is X17
Is_X17
Islamic Collection
Approved Category 2017/Object/Door
Approved Place 2018/Africa/Egypt
Approved Place 2018/Africa/Egypt/Cairo
Door
1400-1450 (ivory inlay), 1900-1930 (door panel)
1395
1895
1455
1935
Approved Material 2018/Organic/Plant (material)/Wood (material)
Approved Material 2018/Organic/Animal (material)/Ivory (material)
Wood (material)
Ivory (material)
235.1 cm x 98.4 cm x 5 cm (height x width x depth)
art
Unknown
Unknown
Cairo
cre
Unknown
Unknown
Egypt
possibly
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