Lane-Poole, Stanley, 1854-1931 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 227
22. The third, or Mamluk, class is at once the most numerous andbest identified by inscriptions. The greater number of examples * I have seen, says Nasir-i-Khusrau, in the nth century, copperbowlsof Damascus containing each 30 menn of water ; they shine like gold. Theytell me that a woman owns 5000… … FIG. 75.—PANEL OF TABLE OF EN-NASIR, SON OF KALALN. (Cairo Museum.) and it is probable that the style acquired its distinctive characterduring this period of sumptuous magnificence in the fourteenth
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