door

This single leaf of a door shows a geometric ornamentation based on stars and polygons in the main field. These elements are arranged in an all-over repeat pattern composed of a rosette in the middle and quarter sections of the central motif in the four corners. Strips marked with grooves form the strictly geometric structure of the tracery whose openings are filled with small bevelled panels. The strips and panels are connected by tongue and groove joints to achieve an unbroken surface.
Originally, the door seems to have been of symmetrical composition with a section with two plain rectangular panels in the upper and lower part and a large ornamented area in the middle. Possibly for a different use, the door was lengthened below by the addition of a section of two plain rectangular panels.

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How date and origin were established:
A pattern based on the geometrical elements of a star and polygons is a characteristic decoration scheme of Mamluk doors. This door was assigned to the late 9th –early 10th / late 15th–early 16th centuries because of the unornamented polygons. A carved wooden panel from a building of Sultan Qaytbay at Jamaliyya dated 885 / 1481 in the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo shows two small fields with the same geometric organisation.

How Object was obtained:
There is no information about acquisition.

How provenance was established:
The geometrical pattern of a plain star and polygons was a characteristic decoration of Mamluk furniture.

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