Shutters door
Unique ID： A019
- Attribution
- Amir Shams al-Dīn Sunqur al-Tawīl al-Manṣūrī, one of Sultan Qalāwūn's slaves.
- Place
- Egypt
- Period
- Mamluk period, the 13th century
- Material
- Wood illustrated with copper
- Owner
- Museum of Islamic Art (Egypt)
- Collection No.
- 2389-2076
- Description
- The two shutters decorated with identical figures , it's a unique amazing mamluk door as the artisan could carry out which known for " optical illusion" as if we take a far look we'll see an overlapping branches and leavers but if we get more close look we'll notice figures of birds and animals in addition to the Naski scripts of the owner name . This door had moved from al-Ashraf Barsbāy’s convert which was established in (841A. H/ 1437 A.D) in al-Khānqāh.
- Copyright
- © Museum of Islamic Art
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