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A domed ceiling held the rich blue color of a peacock's tail trimmed with gold.

In 1860 Charles Darwin wrote, “The sight of a feather in a peacock’s tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!”

Sometimes, they’re decorations to attract a female’s eye, like a peacock’s tail feathers or the vibrant colors on a lizard’s belly.

In the gallery devoted to E-1027, make sure to select the white dining room serving table, so you can see its four pivoting drawers fanned out like a peacock’s tail.

Its interior contains some of the finest tilework to be found anywhere in the world, especially the dome with its unfathomably complex geometric patterns, said to resemble a peacock’s tail – testament to untold millions of hours of care and labour.