Title: Qiblah Compass
Date: 18th – early 19th century
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Materials: engraved brass plate on a wooden base, with a magnetized needle; paintings in opaque watercolour and gold on paper, under glass
Dimensions: 20.2 x 18cm (overall); 10 x 7cm (painted area)
Accession Number: SCI 457
Other Notes:
The recessed oval area has depictions of the sanctuaries at Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem. The paintings are signed, tersim al-‘abd Fakhri fi dar al-saltanah Qustantiniyyah (‘painted by the servant [of God] Fakhri in the Abode of the Sultanate, Constantinople’).
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