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"The Elephant Clock", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari
Calligrapher Farrukh ibn `Abd al-Latif
Author Badi' al-Zaman ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari
dated 715 AH/1315 CE
- Medium
- Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- Classification
- Codices
- Dimensions
- H. 11 13/16 in. (30 cm) W. 7 3/4 in. (19.7cm) Mat: H. 19 1/4 in. (48.9 cm) W. 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm) Frame: H. 20 1/4 in. (51.4 cm) W. 15 1/4 in. (38.7 cm)
- Culture
- probably Syria or Iraq
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Islamic Art
- Credit line
- Bequest of Cora Timken Burnett, 1956
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
