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Lot 78W

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

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

Sold for £9,375 inc. premium

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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 blue glass decorated in gilt and polychrome enamels with a large band of inscription to the shoulders, the necks with further bands of inscription interspersed by inscription-filled roundels, the interstices with bands containing undulating vines and abstract geometric motifs
each 38 cm. high(2)

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Inscriptions: around the neck, including a repeat of Qur'an, chapter XXIV (al-nur), a part of verse 35; around the body, 'izz li-mawlana /al-sultan a/al-makhd[u]mi al-nasir nasir al-din muha[mma]d/ al-'al[a]'i al-..... dar, "Glory to our lord, the Sultan, the well-served, the victorious, Nasir al-Din Muhammad al-'Ala'i the ...".

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