File:Mihrab for prayer.jpg

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Mihrab found in the home of Doris Duke

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English: Tiles taken from a shrine found in Varamin, Iran 1890. Sold to a collection in Paris, 1901 in the Worlds Fair. It was then purchased and taken to NY until 1940.

Buyer outbid the metropolitan and purchase estimate was $150K in 1940.

When the sun sets the light illuminates the lustreware tiles.

This is an important religious object and is supposed to point you to Mecca
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