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Coffee-house
Dublin, Ireland
The Chester Beatty Library
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Hegira 11th century / AD 17th century
CBL T 439.9
Coloured pigments and gold on paper
41.5 x 27.2 cm
Ottoman
Turkey
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.
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"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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