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Bronze lamp from the Mosque of Qadi ‘Abd-el-Basit, Cairo

Photograph
ca. 1880
Artist/Maker
Pascal Sebah (photographer)
Place of origin
Cairo (photographed)

Photograph by Pascal Sebah, Arab Art Museum, Bronze lamp from the Mosque of El-Kadi Abd-el-Basit au Koroumfich [Khurunfish], albumen print, ca. 1870


Object details

Categories
Photographs
Archaeology
Mosques
Object type
Photograph
TitleBronze lamp from the Mosque of Qadi ‘Abd-el-Basit, Cairo (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Albumen print
Photographic Paper
Photography
Brief description
Photograph by Pascal Sebah, Arab Art Museum, Bronze lamp from the Mosque of El-Kadi Abd-el-Basit au Koroumfich [Khurunfish], albumen print, ca. 1870
Style
Mamluk Egypt
Object history
This photograph is one of a set (numbered 85520 to 85545) taken by Pascal Sebah and presented to the Museum by the Ministers of Public Worship, Cairo, in 1884
Subject depicted
Lamps
Associations
Mamluk
Pascal Sebah
Museum of Arab Art
Mosque of Qadi Abd Al-Basit
Bibliographic references
  • Herz, Max. Catalogue sommaire des monuments exposés dans le Musée national de l'art arabe. Cairo: G. Lekegian & cie, 1895.
Other number
60 - Index of Islamic Monuments in Cairo
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
85538

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Record createdDecember 31, 2014
Record URL
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