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Coptic Panels
These panels, decorated with geometric and foliate designs carved in deep relief, most likely belonged to a folding door separating the nave from the sanctuary of a Coptic (Egyptian Christian) church. Their flanged rims would have allowed them to fit within an outer rectangular frame. Though the panels are the only identified examples of Coptic art in Moore’s gift to The Met, they resemble another artwork it included: a pair of doors from a minbar (pulpit) in a mosque that are now on view in Gallery 450. The collector himself may not have known the panels’ or the doors’ original contexts; he responded instead to their color, geometric lines, and texture.
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