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Lot 101W

A pair of Mamluk style enamelled glass Mosque Lamps
Europe, 20th Century
(2)

8 April 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£12,000 - £15,000

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A pair of Mamluk style enamelled glass Mosque Lamps
Europe, 20th Century

the bulbous bodies on short splayed feet with long flaring necks, lug handles around the shoulders, the clear glass decorated in polychrome enamels with large bands of inscription to the shoulders, the necks with further bands of inscription interspersed by roundels containing horses, the interstices with bands containing scrolling floral and foliate vines
each 39 cm. high(2)

Footnotes

Inscriptions: around the neck, repeat of Qur'an, chapter XXIV (al-nur), a part of verse 35; around the shoulder, li-maqarr al-marhu[m]/..../ ... al-dar / al-taqwa/ al-'ali, "For the deceased ....... The house of piety, the exalted".

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