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Islamic Art

Twenty prints drawn from across the tradition: ten- and twelve-fold knots, ribbed domes and painted ceilings, Iznik tulips, lamps, doors, arcades, carpets and instruments, each built from its real geometry, with no script and no figures.

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A ten-pointed gold star ringed by turquoise petals and red points, all bound in interlaced ivory bands on a lapis panel, with a quarter of the same knot set into each corner.Ten-Fold KnotNo. 1
Eight ivory ribs cross inside a gold ring on deep blue, making an eight-pointed star with an octagon at its heart; the cells between them lighten from blue at the rim through turquoise to pale honey at the centre.Ribbed DomeNo. 2
A tall pointed arch sits in six nested bands of ivory, red and turquoise over a cobalt field of fine six-fold lines, with gold columns and two star rosettes in the spandrels.MihrabNo. 3
A tall glass lamp with a flared neck, a broad body and a high foot hangs on gold chains; its cobalt bands are pierced with rows of small stars and three large star windows, all lit warm from the flame inside.The LampNo. 4
An arcade of horseshoe arches on slender dark piers, every arch built of alternating terracotta and cream wedge stones, under a gold rule in a deep, warm hall.VoussoirsNo. 5
A symmetrical spray rises from two curling saz leaves to a red tulip at the top, with cobalt carnations, turquoise tulips and red rosettes on either side, framed in a blue border.Iznik Tulip TileNo. 6
A framed panel of white tiles, each with a cobalt rosette and red tulips pointing to its four sides and curving saz stems reaching to the corners, where quarter-circles meet in scalloped cobalt medallions; the frame falls on the tiles' own centre lines.Four TilesNo. 7
A framed field of lapis eight-point stars with gold centres, turquoise petals and small red four-point stars, bound together by interlaced gold bands.Painted CeilingNo. 8
A gold twelve-pointed star ringed by turquoise petals and red points, outlined in ivory within a dark circle on an ivory sheet, with a quarter of the same rosette in each corner.Rosette of TwelveNo. 9
On a brown leather ground, gold tooled lines form a sixteen-fold rosette in a double ring at the centre, with quarter rosettes in each corner and a dotted border between two ruled frames.Binding, SixteenNo. 10
A dark diagonal lattice of beads and turned spindles, divided by a rail into two panels, stands in front of light that deepens from gold at the top to red at the bottom.MashrabiyaNo. 11
A framed field of white six-pointed stars with cobalt hearts on teal, the pieces bound together by interlaced dark bands edged in gold.Six-FoldNo. 12
A single ivory band traces a twelve-pointed knot filled with green petals and a honey star on a terracotta panel, with small eight-pointed knots in cobalt and honey near the corners where the sheet allows.LaceríaNo. 13
Large ivory twelve-pointed stars with red star centres sit in a framed field on a triangular grid, with small gold stars between them and green pieces around, all tied together by interlaced dark bands with a pale core.Twelve and SixNo. 14
Under a cedar beam with its joist ends showing, a pointed window with a fine lattice stands open between two carved cedar shutters in plain plaster, above a frieze of small carved arches, a tiled dado of hexagons and six-pointed stars in cobalt, green and ochre, and a terracotta floor.Tiled DadoNo. 15
A planked double door in cobalt stands in a horseshoe arch framed by a chequered tile band and a teal surround; gold studs trace the edge of each leaf and form four round starbursts, with ring knockers at the meeting stile.Studded DoorNo. 16
Rows of stepped octagons, each quartered in ivory and orange around an indigo diamond, are threaded on dark lines across a madder-red field, with small diamond guls between them and an indigo border of running diamonds.GulNo. 17
Raised pale bands of lobed arches cross each other to make a diamond net on a framed sandstone ground, each band throwing a shadow down and to the right.SebkaNo. 18
A brass astrolabe hangs from its throne and ring against a deep blue ground; the rim is graduated in fine ticks, the plate engraved with circles of altitude that close in towards the zenith, and the openwork rete above it carries the ecliptic ring, twelve star pointers and a long rule.AstrolabeNo. 19
A framed field of eight-pointed stars with ivory rims, each holding a cobalt field, a gold star and a red heart, fitted point to point with turquoise crosses, every tile set in a fine dark joint.Star and CrossNo. 20
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