Desk
Le Bardo, Tunis, Tunisia
Musée d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine de Kassar Saïd
19th century
Wood, gold leaf
Palais de Kassar Saïd
This desk, an important object with great symbolic value, was offered by the Tunisian people to the great reforming minister, Khaireddine (Khayr al-Din) Pacha. The wooden desk is painted white, and a floral pattern decorates its drawers.
Saloua Khadhar Zangar "Desk" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;tn;31;en
Prepared by: Saloua Khadhar Zangar
Translation by: Flaminia Baldwin
MWNF Working Number: TN 031
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