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Wooden panel: UC 40775

Wooden panel with Chinese-style figure dressed in long trousers and wide sleeves, seated on the ground blowing a pipe. Background of foliage. Produced on Sicily (which was part of the Fatimid caliphate, compare the map), for a Fatimid palace in Cairo. date: about 11th - 12th century.

UC 40775



 

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