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Pearls on a String: Artists, Patrons, and Poets at the Great Islamic Courts

Cleaner for flashpan and flintlock from the gun set of Mahmud I, approx. 1732
Turkey, Ottoman period (1300–1922)
Silver, gilded silver, and diamonds

The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Acquired by Henry Walters, 1903, 51.89.
Photograph © The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.