one of several pictures I took at the (then) museum of popular traditions in the Beit Ajiqbash, described by Ross Burns in het great The monuments of Syria as "built in 1757 by the wealthy Christian trading family of that name. It has a harmonious courtyard extravagantly decorated in a style that borrows elements from Mamluk to Rococo, blending them in an exuberant synthesis. The reception room opposite the iwan has a superb ceiling in gilded and painted wood.