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A PAIR OF MASSIVE MAMLUK-REVIVAL SILVER AND GOLD INLAID BRASS OVERLAID WOODEN DOORS
SIGNED ELIAS HATOUN, EGYPT, 1906 AD
A PAIR OF MASSIVE MAMLUK-REVIVAL SILVER AND GOLD INLAID BRASS OVERLAID WOODEN DOORS SIGNED ELIAS HATOUN, EGYPT, 1906 AD The doors each with a central panel containing offset rows of alternating large and small geometric rosettes, the larger with pronounced central bosses, above and below panels of silver inlaid calligraphy, the panel below containing a gold inlaid signature, around this a border of scolling arabesques followed by one of around geometric polygonal design, the outer border with interlacing motifs forming hexagons and elongated hexagonal panels, with two door-knockers of openwork arabesques, the wooden reverse with simple geometric panelled design, light losses Each door 120 x 35in. (314 x 89cm.) (2)