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"Design for a Clock in the Form of an Elephant with an Indian Driver", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari

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Ink opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Rights: Public Domain

Islamic Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Rogers Fund 1955

Badi' al-Zaman ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari (Author)

Codices Human Figures Weapons

probably Syria or Iraq

Title: "Design for a Clock in the Form of an Elephant with an Indian Driver", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari

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Ink opaque watercolor and gold on paper.

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