Geometric ceramic (Faience) decoration from the Mosque of Cheykhoun, pub. 1877. Creator: Emile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-79).

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Geometric ceramic (Faience) decoration from the Mosque of Cheykhoun; from L'Art Arabe d'apres les Monuments de Kaire; pub. 1877 (print). Repeated geometric pattern made up of concentric girih tiles summounted by a border; from L'Art Arabe d'apres les Monuments de Kaire; illustrations of Islamic art, architecture, woodwork, tiling, interiors, furnitute etc.; copied by 19th century designers for carpet and wallpaper design etc. for the West; Émile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879) was a French archeologist, Egyptologist, architect and writer of the nineteenth century.

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