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Lot 91W

A Mamluk style enamelled glass Mosque Lamp
Europe, 20th Century

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

£8,000 - £12,000

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A Mamluk style enamelled glass Mosque Lamp
Europe, 20th Century

the bulbous body on a short splayed foot with long flaring neck, lug handles around the shoulder, the clear glass decorated in polychrome enamels with a large band of inscription to the shoulder, the neck with further band of inscription interspersed by inscription-filled roundels, the interstices with bands containing undulating floral vines and abstract geometric motifs
43 cm. high

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

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