Panel with an arabesque design

A panel with an arabesque consisting of two floral braids intertwining with each other on two levels. This type of arabesque with elongated leaves appears during the 12th century, and an example may be found on the portable mihrab of the Sayyida Nafisa mosque dated circa 1145-1156. However, the complex symmetrical structure of the ornamentation also recalls the minbar from the mosque of Sultan Lajin (AH 696/1296). Probably from Syria, 13th c. H 62 cm (ΓΕ 9243)