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Andrea Gibson, The Madness Vase

There are many forms for desert roses, from flat rosettes to intricate, multi-tiered structures, depending on the crystallization conditions.

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The white domes of Chitral Mosque point upward to the 25,289' summit of Tirich Mir, the highest mountain in Pakistan's Hindu Kush Range, some 50 miles in the distance.

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Jewelry Elements

Late 14th–16th century, attributed to Iran or Central Asia

Medium: Gold sheet; worked, chased, and set with turquoise, gray chalcedony, and glass

Few examples of medieval Islamic jewelry survive, leaving scholars to rely on depictions of jewelry in manuscript paintings of the period for evidence of their appearance. Imagery from Ilkhanid and later period painting reveals that necklaces sharing some details with the jewelry elements shown here were worn by women in the fourteenth to sixteenth century in Iran and Central Asia.