2-701-179 - Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images

Faience mural with border using highly stylised repeating patterns of vegetal and floral forms, from a Kiosk; from L'Art Arabe d'apres les Monuments de Kaire; pub. 1877 (print). Ornate design of complex repeated arabesque pattern of vegetal and floral motifs, with a border, from L'Art Arabe d'apres les Monuments de Kaire; illustrations of Islamic art, architecture, woodwork, tiling, interiors, furnitute etc.; copied by 19th century designers for carpet and wallpaper design etc. for the West; Émile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879) was a French archeologist, Egyptologist, architect and writer of the nineteenth century.