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Textile with Confronted Camels Bearing the Invocation "O Compassionate"

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Islamic Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Rogers Fund 1959
Title: Textile with Confronted Camels Bearing the Invocation "O Compassionate"
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