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Three panels of carved stucco in cream on terracotta: style A with compartments of deeply cut vine leaves and grapes, style B with flatter leaves picked out by drilled dots and notches, and style C, the bevelled style, with mirrored abstract forms cut on a slant so that no background is left.
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Samarra Stucco

No. 52 of 100 · free · 300 dpi

What you seeThree panels of carved stucco in cream on terracotta: style A with compartments of deeply cut vine leaves and grapes, style B with flatter leaves picked out by drilled dots and notches, and style C, the bevelled style, with mirrored abstract forms cut on a slant so that no background is left.

What it meansExcavations at Samarra, the ninth-century Abbasid capital in Iraq, revealed wall stucco that scholars group into three styles. The third, the bevelled style, was moulded rather than carved and spread widely across the Islamic world.

Where it worksA warm, textured plate for a dining room, a hallway or a study.

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