Matthew Thomas
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Lot 59
An enamelled glass mosque lamp with the name of 'Abbas Hilmi Pasha (REG. 1892-1914) Egypt, circa 1900
6 October 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £18,750 inc. premium
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An enamelled glass mosque lamp with the name of 'Abbas Hilmi Pasha (REG. 1892-1914)
Egypt, circa 1900
Egypt, circa 1900
of typical Mamluk form with sloping rounded body and flared mouth on short foot, six simple loop handles around the body, the surface decorated in red and blue enamels and gilt with a band of red-outlined blue thuluth around the mouth, the underside of the body with similar calligraphy divided by three roundels giving the name of the patron as 'Abbas Hilmi, the body with double red band of strapwork forming drop shapes around the handles alternated with cartouches of floral panels reserved against a blue ground, a band of red circles between cusped borders below, similar cusping between all registers
34.5cm. high
34.5cm. high
Footnotes
Inscriptions: Qur'an, chapter XXIV (al-nur), part of verse 35; in the roundels, repeat of, 'izz li-mawlana al-khadiv 'abbas hilmi al-thani adam allah ayyamahu 'Glory to our Lord, the Khediv 'Abbas Hilmi II, may God prolong his time'.
Abbas II Hilmi Bey, also know as 'Abbas Hilmi Pasha (1874-1944) was the last Khedive or Ottoman viceroy of Egypt.