. An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians, written in Egypt during the years 1833, -34, and -35, partly from notes made during a former visit to that country in the years 1825-28 . ffi^#^^ iiifa^z4.\=c<2i|||| mm mum E02 EW« Itl E«^PJ 3^ 1 ac i^ D C Specimens of Panel-work.—These are represented on a scale of one inchto twenty-four or tliirty. PRIVATE HOUSES. 37 and much ingenuity displayed in the different modes inwhich these small panels are formed and disposed. Afew specimens are introduced opposite. The ceiling overthe leewan is of wood, with carved beams, generally
. An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians, written in Egypt during the years 1833, -34, and -35, partly from notes made during a former visit to that country in the years 1825-28 . ffi^#^^ iiifa^z4.\=c<2i|||| mm mum E02 EW« Itl E«^PJ 3^ 1 ac i^ D C Specimens of Panel-work.—These are represented on a scale of one inchto twenty-four or tliirty. PRIVATE HOUSES. 37 and much ingenuity displayed in the different modes inwhich these small panels are formed and disposed. Afew specimens are introduced opposite. The ceiling overthe leewan is of wood, with carved beams, generally. Ceiling of a Durkaah.—About eight feet wide. about a foot apart, partially painted, and sometimes that part of the ceiling which is over the durkdah,in a handsome house, is usually more richly decorated: 38 THE MODERX EGYPTIANS. here, instead of beams, numerous thin strips of wood arenailed upon the planks, fonnino: ])atterns curiously com-plicated, yet perfectly reg-ular, and having^ a higjhly orna-mental effect. I give a sketch of the half of a ceilingthus decorated, but not in the most complicated strips are painted yellow, or gilt; and the spaceswithin painted green, red, and blue.* In the examplewhich I have inserted, the colours are as indicated in thesketch of a portion of the same on a larger scale, except-ing in the square in the centre of the ceiling, where thestrips are black, upon a yellow ground. From the centreof this square a chandelier is often suspended. Thereare many patterns of a similar kind ; and the colours ^ti^C) 05>AV^ ti^ p>^ o{y:Ch
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