Antique Persian Islamic Arabic Brass Qibla Mecca Zodiac Compass Astrolabe 1880 Paintings Beauquesne exhibited his paintings at

Beauquesne exhibited his paintings at the Paris Salon

These women were often portrayed in states of  ecstatic frenzy characterized through dancing & feuled by wine

orange glass shade raised on a hand-forged iron organic 'goose neck' base with an oval foot decorated with leaves and flowers

The mirror having a pierced floral brass frame and mounted with a mask of the Roman God Bacchus

Antique Persian Islamic Arabic Brass Qibla Mecca Zodiac Compass Astrolabe 1880 Paintings Beauquesne exhibited his paintings atA good antique 19th century Persian Islamic brass astrolabe compendium, circa 1880. This rare antique Islamic scientific instrument is made from engraved brass and is a compendium comprising an astrolabe, sundial and compass. The front is engraved with signs of the zodiac and degrees and Arabic calligraphy, the circular brass frame is in set with a compass and a hinged sundial gnomon shaped like a camel. Termed a Qibla, to find the sacred direction of