Antique Persian Islamic Arabic Brass Qibla Mecca Zodiac Compass Astrolabe 1880 Sculpture the painting is housed in

the painting is housed in the original gilded Newcomb Macklin Impressionist frame

He moved to Chicago in 1979 and enrolled at the Art Institute

Marcel Breuer embodied many of the School's distinctive concepts and was and one of the School's most famous students

The shrine is raised on a stepped base with four cast brass paw feet

The cabinet had been part of the M

Antique Persian Islamic Arabic Brass Qibla Mecca Zodiac Compass Astrolabe 1880 Sculpture the painting is housed inA good antique 19th century Persian Islamic brass astrolabe compendium, circa 1880. This rare antique Islamic scientific instrument is made from engraved brass and is a compendium comprising an astrolabe, sundial and compass. The front is engraved with signs of the zodiac and degrees and Arabic calligraphy, the circular brass frame is in set with a compass and a hinged sundial gnomon shaped like a camel. Termed a Qibla, to find the sacred direction of