Plate with a View of a Religious Interior

15th century (late Medieval)

32 cm 8.7 cm

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The potter who decorated this plate chose to depict an architectural interior—possibly a shrine—as if it were a flat façade, with domes over the building's three principle units. The central niche probably represents a "mihrab," orienting the building to Mecca. The large lamp,...

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Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1927, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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