Islamic Carved Wood Architectural Lintel - Art for Eternity
Islamic Carved Wood Architectural Lintel - Art for Eternity
Islamic Carved Wood Architectural Lintel - Art for Eternity
Islamic Carved Wood Architectural Lintel - Art for Eternity
Islamic Carved Wood Architectural Lintel - Art for Eternity
Islamic Carved Wood Architectural Lintel - Art for Eternity
Islamic Carved Wood Architectural Lintel - Art for Eternity
Islamic Carved Wood Architectural Lintel - Art for Eternity
Islamic Carved Wood Architectural Lintel - Art for Eternity
Islamic Carved Wood Architectural Lintel - Art for Eternity
Islamic Carved Wood Architectural Lintel - Art for Eternity
Islamic Carved Wood Architectural Lintel - Art for Eternity
Islamic Carved Wood Architectural Lintel - Art for Eternity
Islamic Carved Wood Architectural Lintel - Art for Eternity
Islamic Carved Wood Architectural Lintel - Art for Eternity
Islamic Carved Wood Architectural Lintel - Art for Eternity
Islamic Carved Wood Architectural Lintel - Art for Eternity
Islamic Carved Wood Architectural Lintel - Art for Eternity Islamic Carved Wood Architectural Lintel - Art for Eternity Islamic Carved Wood Architectural Lintel - Art for Eternity Islamic Carved Wood Architectural Lintel - Art for Eternity Islamic Carved Wood Architectural Lintel - Art for Eternity Islamic Carved Wood Architectural Lintel - Art for Eternity Islamic Carved Wood Architectural Lintel - Art for Eternity Islamic Carved Wood Architectural Lintel - Art for Eternity

Islamic Carved Wood Architectural Lintel

15997

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Middle East Circa 19th Century or older. Arch shaped relief panel, probably a door or window; profusely decorated in arabesque motifs featuring rhythmic swirls and floral carving. A central panel has calligraphic Arabic inscription.

Size 22 inches High x 58 inches W. Newer wood and wire behind for suspension. 

Provenance: Mary McFadden (1938–2024) "The Archaeologist of Seventh Avenue". Mary was one of the most distinctive and intellectually adventurous American fashion designers of the late twentieth century, celebrated for collections that drew directly on the art and dress of ancient and non-Western civilizations. Her signature finely pleated "Marii" silk gowns evoked the chitons of classical Greece and the pleated linens of pharaonic Egypt, while her use of color, ornament, and motif borrowed openly from Africa, Asia, pre-Columbian America, and the ancient Mediterranean. This deep engagement with the material culture of the past earned her the memorable nickname "the Archaeologist of Seventh Avenue."

A former editor at Vogue and a tireless world traveler, McFadden was as much a collector and connoisseur as a couturier. She assembled an eclectic personal collection of antiquities and ethnographic art gathered over decades of travel, which she frequently cited as the inspiration for her designs. Her work was widely exhibited and collected, and she was inducted into the Coty American Fashion Critics' Hall of Fame, cementing her reputation as a designer whose creativity was rooted in the study of the ancient world.

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