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"The Elephant Clock", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari

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"The Elephant Clock", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari

Farrukh ibn `Abd al-Latif

Date: dated 715 AH/1315 CE
Type: Folio from an illustrated manuscript
Medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Department: Islamic Art
Institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Object number: 57.51.23
Credit: Bequest of Cora Timken Burnett, 1956

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