Private collections, Private collections--Orientalism, Manners and customs, Manners and customs--Mecca (Saudi Arabia)--Pictorial works, Implements, utensils, etc, Pitchers, Vases
Lithographic print showing objects and utensils commonly used in Mecca, such as water pitchers, wooden boxes, cups and frames. The items are drawn... Show moreLithographic print showing objects and utensils commonly used in Mecca, such as water pitchers, wooden boxes, cups and frames. The items are drawn from the collection of Snouck Hugronje. Title and date from item. Plate 39 in Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka (Haag : Martinus Nijhoff, 1888-1889). The plate is numbered (XXXIX). The image is printed onto a 2-pages folded sheet featuring two plates. Printed beneath image, in ink: in lower right corner: ‘ex. coll. auct.’ (ex collectione auctoris, [drawn] from the collection of the author) and in the lower left corner: ‘P.W.M. Trap exc.’ (Pieter Willem Marinus Trap excudit, Pieter Willem Marinus Trap engraved). The objects are itemized in the list of plates at the beginning of the volume. Each object is identified by a number, which refers to elements in this list, that is: 1., 2. Schèrbah's (hölzerne Wasserkrüge); 3., 4. Barrâdijjeh's (hölzerne Wasserkrüge); 5. Huqq (hölzerne Dose zur Aufbewahrung kleiner Gegenstände); 6. Kâs oder Kâsah (Trinkbecher); 7. Huqq hölzerne Dose); 8. Qaçabah (hölzernes Gestell zur Aufnahme eines Wassserkruges). A note mentions that more information on those objects can be found in the essay by Snouck Hurgronje titled "Ethnographisches aus Mekka", which was published in "Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie" (Vol. I, Leiden, 1888). Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.02074-0039 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i2651929x BIB-ID: 2831721 Show less
