Vertical Kaaba Scroll
Ink and watercolor on paper (vertical scroll format), 132 x 78cm, China, Nineteenth Century.
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Plum Blossoms Above the Kaaba
story by Yi Ting Lee , Prokriti Shyamolima.Some images are so familiar to us that it may be difficult to imagine a different perspective. The iconic cuboid Kaaba, the Islamic House of God in Mecca, present-day Saudi Arabia, shares this quality.