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Lot 93W

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

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

Sold for £10,000 inc. premium

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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 intricate interlace consisting of scrolling vines and tendrils terminating in palmettes and split-palmettes, the neck with a band of inscription interspersed by inscription filled roundels
44 cm. high

Footnotes

Inscriptions: around the neck, a repeat of Qur'an, chapter XXIV (al-nur), a part of verse 35.

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