In this photograph taken by the Armenian Orientalist painter and photographer G. Lekegian (active c.1880–1920) features a stucco and glass window with the motif of a vase of flowers. The vase, within a pointed arch, holds four different kinds of stylized flowers. The cartouche above the arch bears an Islamic inscription.

This stucco and glass window was captured in its setting in the provisional museum in Cairo, the future Museum of Arab Art (Musée d’art arabe), today known as the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA). Removed from its original architectural context, the window is flanked on both sides by two wooden tables (in Arabic: karāsī) placed on top of each other. The building element and furniture were labelled and juxtaposed in a symmetrical arrangement and bear witness to a staging of the window in 19th-century photography. Lekegian also photographed the same window in isolation, without any architectural or museal context (IG_480). By comparing the two photographs, it can be deduced that he may have captured the same window in the two photographs, which both bear a label with the number ‘42’.