Candlestick Base
Not on view
Among the artifacts preserved in the monasteries and churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia, is a group of medieval Islamic inlaid metalwork from Egypt in the Mamluk period (1250–1517). The works shed light on the connections between Christian and Muslim societies in Africa. They also expand our knowledge of the various uses of Islamic inlaid metalwork, furnishing elite households and church treasuries, and the wide geographic boundaries in which it circulated, from West and sub-Saharan Africa to Europe and probably even China. The example here is representative of the metalwork found in Ethiopian churches.
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