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A pointed window in a plum room at night. On the sill a round brass lantern burns beside a small dish of dates, and through the glass are the indigo sky, a crescent, a few stars and the dark shape of a dome with its gold finial.
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Lantern & Light

Lamp in the Window

No. 7 of 20 · free · 300 dpi

What you seeA pointed window in a plum room at night. On the sill a round brass lantern burns beside a small dish of dates, and through the glass are the indigo sky, a crescent, a few stars and the dark shape of a dome with its gold finial.

What it meansA lamp set in the window says someone is awake and expecting company, whether for iftar or for the small meal before dawn. Dates on the sill are the first thing eaten when the fast breaks.

Where it worksIntimate and homely, with the outdoors framed inside. For a kitchen, a bedroom or a child's room.

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Lanterns hung on a line above dark still water at night. Each lantern glows amber and its reflection lies below as a column of broken gold ripples, with a few stars in the sky above.Lanterns over WaterNo. 8
Hexagonal pierced lanterns hung in staggered rows on indigo, each with a small roof, ring and finial. Three patterns of piercing alternate, eight-point stars, a grid of dots and rings of small sparks, each lantern lit amber behind its brass and hung on its own thin rod.Pierced LanternsNo. 9
A tall façade of horseshoe-arched windows in tight rows. Roughly half are lit, each showing a faint lattice of stars behind the glass, and the rest are dark indigo, so the lit windows scatter over the wall like a chart of stars.Lit FaçadeNo. 10
Fanous standing on their feet in a row along a dark wooden ledge: hexagonal, tall and round-bellied, from knee-high to the small tin ones children carry. Their windows make one line of light across a plum dark room, and each throws a soft ring onto the shelf.Lamp RowNo. 11
A narrow alley between tall walls, looking down its length to a small lit doorway at the far end. Four strings of lanterns cross overhead, growing smaller with distance; lit windows and two wooden doors line the walls, and a strip of indigo sky holds the crescent.The AlleyNo. 12
Small fanous lanterns drawn in gold line on deep indigo in a half-drop repeat, hexagonal, tall and round-bellied in turn, each hung on its own thin rod with an amber flame in its window.Fanous RepeatNo. 13
A slim black minaret rising the full height of the sheet against a starry indigo sky. Its shaft windows glow amber, lanterns hang beneath each of its two railed balconies, a small lit storey and onion cap close it and a gold crescent finial tops it, with a large crescent moon in the sky beside it.Minaret LightsNo. 14
A pointed doorway in a lime-washed wall, one studded blue leaf of its door swung open. Amber light floods out from inside and down three stone steps, and a brass lantern hangs lit above the point of the arch.Doorway GlowNo. 15

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