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They once decorated the lavish rooms of the ‘maison arabe’ of the French aristocrat, the  Comte Gaston de St Maurice (1831-1905), which was built for him between 1872 and 1879. \n\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":"Large-scale plaster cast, coloured and gilded, of a quarter section of the interior of a dome, decorated with geometric ornament. This may come from the same 15th-century house in Cairo (possibly the  Qasr Rumi) as the set of large-scale plaster casts accessioned as 1030 to I-1884. Though it is not possible to confirm without a close physical examination, this cast is probably made from the same pinkish locally-available Egyptian building plaster which is used to make the  other casts from the St Maurice collection.  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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.1884-807. This reproduction was recorded as being on loan to the Royal Scottish Museum according to nominal file (12/12/21).","briefDescription":"Large-scale plaster cast, coloured and gilded, of a section of the interior of a dome, from a 15th-century house in Cairo (possibly the  Qasr Rumi).","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. 98"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Mercedes Volait, <u>Maisons de France au Caire: le remploi de grans  décors mamelouks et ottomans dans une architecture moderne</u> (Cairo:  Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientales, 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":["1032-1884"],"accessionNumberNum":"1032","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1884,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-07","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-24","availableToBook":true}}