Pl. CXLIV in vol. 3 of Émile Prisse d’Avennes’ L’Art arabe d’après les monuments du Kaire depuis le VIIe siècle jusqu’à la fin du XVIIIe, 1877. The plate shows a single stucco and glass window with central cypress tree entwined with a yellow tendril with red flowers. The cypress tree is framed by an arch; the window is completed by a border of green and red interlaces, and flowers in the corners. The background is perforated.
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Prisse d’Avennes (1807–1879) states that the stucco and glass window illustrated comes from the Sayyida Zaynab Mosque in Cairo. The first notice of this mosque is its renovation in 951 AH / 1547 AD. There was a further restoration in 1171 AH / 1768 AD, and between 1297–1304 AH / 1881–1887 AD Julius Franz Pasha, as director of the Technical Waqf Department, rebuilt the mosque. Prisse d’Avennes himself speaks of a recent renovation, during which the window depicted was removed (Prisse d’Avennes, 1869–1877, vol… More
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