Door Post
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In Ottoman buildings, doors and window-shutters often have two wings. The gap between them is covered by an astragal, a narrow vertical stile attached to the edge of one of the wings, designed to prevent draughts. In Middle Eastern languages, this is called the "nose" of the door (bīnī in Persian and Ottoman Turkish). This metal example is from the huge doors of the Great Mosque (Ulu Cami) of Bursa, which was completed in 1399–1400 (802 in the Hijri calendar) by Sultan Bayezid I.
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| Parts | This object consists of 4 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Brass, cast |
| Brief description | Astragal (door fitting), copper alloy, from the Great Mosque of Bursa, Turkey, ca. 1400. |
| Physical description | Astragal from a set of doors, in two pieces, partly restored in plaster, together with two additional modern pieces which formed part of a 19th century French restoration. |
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| Summary | In Ottoman buildings, doors and window-shutters often have two wings. The gap between them is covered by an astragal, a narrow vertical stile attached to the edge of one of the wings, designed to prevent draughts. In Middle Eastern languages, this is called the "nose" of the door (bīnī in Persian and Ottoman Turkish). This metal example is from the huge doors of the Great Mosque (Ulu Cami) of Bursa, which was completed in 1399–1400 (802 in the Hijri calendar) by Sultan Bayezid I. |
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| Accession number | 34 to C-1890 |
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| Record created | December 5, 2003 |
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