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Recommended features

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  • 5 minutes with… A precious survivor from Mughal India

    Specialist Sara Plumbly examines a rare and bewitching page from a 16th-century, hand-painted copy of the Hamzanama 

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  • Separated by 500 years — two precious basins and the Islamic artistry that unites them

    Our specialists explain how a 14th-century Mamluk basin inspired an exquisite ceramic imitation in France during the Islamic Revival of the 19th century

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  • Collecting guide: Ottoman silk velvet panels

    With their precious metal threads and floral motifs, textiles produced in Turkey in the 16th and 17th centuries were widely prized in war tents, palaces and pavilions

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  • Astrolabes: Tools for decoding the movement of the stars

    An expert introduction to the beautiful instruments for divining the night and the course of the sun — described as ‘the medieval iPhone’

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  • Quentin Blake on ‘doing things a writer can’t do’

    As the Quentin Blake: Not in Books sale opens, the illustrator of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and many other books offers a glimpse of his creative process

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  • Virtual tour: Handbags x HYPE at Christie’s New York

    The viewing showcases the most comprehensive selection of limited-edition handbags and Supreme accessories ever seen at Christie’s