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The most popular ornament seems to have come from the buildings constructed during the reign of Sultan Qa’itbay (r.1468-96), however the impressive Mosque-Madrasa complex of Sultan Hasan was the next most represented building among St Maurice's cast collection.\r\n\r\nSt Maurice lived in Cairo for twenty years, serving as equerry to the Khedive (Ottoman  governor) of Egypt. During that period, he accumulated a large collection of historic objects  from Islamic Egypt, dating especially from the 14th-16th centuries but also including some  19th-century objects. The V&amp;A acquired about 200 objects from St Maurice  collection in 1884.","physicalDescription":"Plaster cast made from locally available Egyptian building plaster, which has a  pinkish tone. The surface has been patinated with a grey pigment and where this is flaking the pink colour of the material is showing through.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28674"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"plaster","id":"AAT14922"}],"techniques":[{"text":"cast","id":"x32615"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Plaster cast with patina","categories":[{"text":"Africa","id":"THES49019"},{"text":"Plaster Cast","id":"THES270451"}],"styles":[{"text":"Mamluk Egypt","id":"x34993"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"SCP","id":"THES48600"},"images":[],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"001","id":"THES401234"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Fragment of a corner with arabesque ornament, plaster cast","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Cairo","id":"x28776"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"Plaster casts were installed in the maison arabe built for St Maurice between  1872 and 1879 by the French architect Ambroise Baudry (1838-1906), who  designed several houses for prominent French ex-patriates in Egypt."}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1872-1879","earliest":"1872-01-01","latest":"1879-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"1035-1884","id":"1035B-1884"},"association":""}],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Weight","value":"10.9","unit":"kg","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Bought from the collection of Gaston de Saint-Maurice (1831-1905) in 1884. Saint-Maurice displayed his extensive art collection at the 1878 Paris exhibition, in a gallery entitled L'Egypte des Khalifes. This was part of an official sequence of displays celebrating the history of Egypt, presented by the Egyptian state at this international event. Saint-Maurice held a position at the Khedival court, and had lived in Cairo in 1868-1878. Following the exhibition, Saint-Maurice offered his collection for sale to the South Kensington Museum (today the V&A).","historicalContext":"This object was copied in the Museum and given the number Repro.1884-824. This reproduction was recorded as being on loan to the Royal Scottish Museum according to nominal file (12/12/21).","briefDescription":"Plaster cast of corner ornament from the portal of the Mosque-Madrasa complex of Sultan Hasan, Cairo, built 1356-63.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>List of Objects in the Art Division, South Kensington Museum acquired during the Year 1884.</u> London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1885. p. 99"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Mercedes Volait, <u>Maisons de France au Caire: le remploi de grans décors mamelouks et ottomans dans une architecture modernes</u> (Cairo: Institut Français  d’Archéologie Orientale, 2012)"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[{"text":"Gaston de Saint-Maurice","id":"C4450"}],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[{"text":"Paris International Exhibition, 1878","id":"V165"}],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["1036-1884"],"accessionNumberNum":"1036","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1884,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-07","recordCreationDate":"2008-07-30","availableToBook":false}}