Lot 167Ф,Y
An Egyptian architectural ivory-inlaid cabinet by El Fakit Ismail Radwan Egypt, late 19th Century with presentation date AH 1342/AD 1923
25 October 2021, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£6,000 - £8,000
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An Egyptian architectural ivory-inlaid cabinet by El Fakit Ismail Radwan
Egypt, late 19th Century with presentation date AH 1342/AD 1923
Egypt, late 19th Century with presentation date AH 1342/AD 1923
in the form of a gateway, the two hinged doors mounted with openwork brass with geometric designs, cartouches with engraved inscriptions in kufic to top and bottom, the walls with inlaid ivory tiles and decoration, the windows with mashribiyya screens and turned ivory columns, the entire front panel opening to reveal three glass shelves and an electric light fitted to the ceiling, a typed label listing details of provenance, maker and date to the floor
95 x 50 x 25 cm.
95 x 50 x 25 cm.
Footnotes
Provenance
Colonel Ernest William Slaughter CBE.
Sotheby's New York, 28 April, 1994, lot 183.
Ernest William Slaughter was born in Reading in 1876 and trained as an engineer before joining the Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Force in 1918. Following the war he became an engineer in the service of the Egyptian government. This cabinet was presented to him as a gift from the staff of the Egyptian State Railways in 1923.
Inscriptions: 'izz li-mawlana malik misr fu'ad al-awwal/ 'amal bursah misr al-salihiyyah (?), 'Glory to our lord, King of Egypt, Fu'ad I, the work of Bursah [of] Egypt al-Salihiyyah'.