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A mabkhara ( or مبخرة ) is a found across the and . The word is derived from " ", incense. The mabkhara was traditionally made from clay or soft stone. Most mabkharas (or mabakhir, the Arabic plural) have a square with inward sloping sides which support a square cup with outward sloping sides. The wooden base is often carved out to form legs. The cup itself is lined with sheet metal. Older were decorated with patterned combinations of soft pegs and tacks, often with mirrors in the panels of the upper part. The legs were ordinarily covered with sheet .

More modern variations of the mabkhara are made of shiny plated sheet . While they retain the , they tend to be decorated with , colored metals and come in many sizes, varying from a few inches to a few feet in height. The craft of making mabakharas is practiced today primarily by artisans, one of which living in Ha'il Province, one of the northern provinces of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.


Architectural mabkharas
The mabkhara has inspired to create buildings in the shape of a mabkhara. For example, there is a mabkhara sculpture surrounded by coffee pots that stands in a in . , and have included mabkharas as decorative landscape elements. In and there are large in the shape of mabkharas in public areas. Bronze mabkharas ornament the public gardens surrounding the water tower in , and a large mabkhara stands in the Hamra section of .


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