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L'Orient musulman

Migeon, Gaston, 1861-1930, Musée du Louvre · 1922 · [Paris] A. Monrancé · 20 pictures

L'Orient musulman is a 1922 Paris art book by Gaston Migeon, curator at the Musée du Louvre, presenting Islamic objects in plates with French captions for scholars and collectors. Its pictures show carved ivory caskets, inlaid metalwork, carved stone panels with interlace and calligraphy, and a miniature painting, offering a designer strong examples of arabesque, interlace borders and Persianate decorative pattern.

Islamic art · Art, Asian

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library