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This item has been added to the Database within the Explore Islamic Art Collections project. Information is available in: English, Arabic.

Name of Object:

Coffee-house

Location:

Dublin, Ireland

Holding Museum:

The Chester Beatty Library

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Date of Object:

Hegira 11th century / AD 17th century

Museum Inventory Number:

CBL T 439.9

Material(s) / Technique(s):

Coloured pigments and gold on paper

Dimensions:

41.5 x 27.2 cm

Period / Dynasty:

Ottoman

Provenance:

Turkey

Description:

Traditionally, social life in the Islamic world revolved around the tea-house or coffee-house, where men would gather to drink tea and coffee, eat sweet pastries or savoury food, and to smoke flavoured tobacco in water pipes (narghile or qalian). There they would play board games, listen to music and poetry recitations or discuss current events. This scene of a Turkish coffee-house would originally have been part of an album of images.

Link to catalogue/digitisation in Holding Institution’s database:

https://viewer.cbl.ie/viewer/image/T_439_9/1/LOG_0000/

Citation of this web page:

 "Coffee-house" in Explore Islamic Art Collections. Museum With No Frontiers, 2025.
https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;ir;Mus21;37;en

MWNF Working Number: IR 37

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 Artistic Introduction

Islamic Dynasties / Period

Ottomans


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