Mausoleum Doors

1551-1552 (early Safavid)

103.2 cm 194.3 cm 7.2 cm

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These doors originally opened into the mausoleum, or tomb, of Imamzada Sulayman, the son of a spiritual leader in Iran, where the Shia branch of Islam flourished. The intricately carved and inlaid decoration on the doors is typical of the ornamentation in religious buildings a...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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Iranian-Islamic
विधा
Wood doors

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