Mashrabiyya17th-19th century

Not on view

Carved wooden window panel or shutter with dark walnut-brown finish, covered in rows of interlocking turned spindles forming an open lattice, with a small hinged inner panel at center-right

Unknown, Mashrabiyya, 17th-19th century, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Madina Collection of Islamic Art, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title: Mashrabiyya
Place Made: Egypt
Date Made: 17th-19th century
Medium: Wood, carved
Dimensions: LE Inventory: 20 1/4 × 14 1/2 × 1 1/4 in. (51.44 × 36.83 × 3.18 cm)
Credit Line: The Madina Collection of Islamic Art, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost
Accession Number: M.2002.1.760
Classification: Wood
Collecting Area: Art of the Middle East: Islamic
Selected Bibliography: Komaroff, Linda. "Islamic Art Now and Then." In Islamic Art: Past, Present, Future, edited by Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom, 26-56. New Haven, New York, and London: Yale University Press, 2019.

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Mashrabiyya17th-19th century

Not on view

Unknown, Mashrabiyya, 17th-19th century, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Madina Collection of Islamic Art, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title: Mashrabiyya
Place Made: Egypt
Date Made: 17th-19th century
Medium: Wood, carved
Dimensions: LE Inventory: 20 1/4 × 14 1/2 × 1 1/4 in. (51.44 × 36.83 × 3.18 cm)
Credit Line: The Madina Collection of Islamic Art, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost
Accession Number: M.2002.1.760
Classification: Wood
Collecting Area: Art of the Middle East: Islamic
Selected Bibliography: Komaroff, Linda. "Islamic Art Now and Then." In Islamic Art: Past, Present, Future, edited by Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom, 26-56. New Haven, New York, and London: Yale University Press, 2019.