AN AYYUBID SULTANATE BRASS DOOR KNOCKER
PERIOD: | 13th century |
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ORIGIN: | Old Mosul. |
DIMENSIONS: | 19.5 Cm across 11.5 Cm cross |
DESCRIPTION: | The door-knocker openwork brass in the form of an open cranium turban which was formed in a Ayyubid era with each flank bound into the arches shape pits. |
| Condition reports; | As expected oxidisation and some erosion, with its age-old particularly to the surface, as viewed. |
Provenance: | Acquired in 1970 Oliver Hoare. |
