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A fine engraved amber and silver-gilt mounted cane later mounted as a parasol Egypt, 19th Century image 1
A fine engraved amber and silver-gilt mounted cane later mounted as a parasol Egypt, 19th Century image 2
A fine engraved amber and silver-gilt mounted cane later mounted as a parasol Egypt, 19th Century image 3
A fine engraved amber and silver-gilt mounted cane later mounted as a parasol Egypt, 19th Century image 4
A fine engraved amber and silver-gilt mounted cane later mounted as a parasol Egypt, 19th Century image 5
Lot 74

A fine engraved amber and silver-gilt mounted cane later mounted as a parasol
Egypt, 19th Century

Islamic and Indian Art
23 May 2023, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£3,000 - £5,000

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A fine engraved amber and silver-gilt mounted cane later mounted as a parasol
Egypt, 19th Century

the bamboo shaft profusely engraved with architectural and landscape scenes between each node, including a mosque, the Pyramids, port scenes, an inscription on a hatched ground and a camel, the amber handle in two parts interspersed by silver-gilt mounts and a painted glass band, the pommel mounted in silver-gilt engraved with further landscape scenes and surmounted by an inscription-filled roundel, gilt-copper tip, later umbrella frame by Paragon and red satin canopy
102 cm. long

Footnotes

Inscriptions: to pommel, tawakkaltu 'ala allah, 'I put my trust in God'; within the landscape scenes an inscription identifying a building jami'(?) husayn (?) fahmi, 'The mosque (?) of Husayn (?) Fahmi'; inscription to centre of handle undeciphered.

Husayn Fahmi Pasha was an architect of the Khedival family who studied in Paris and was commissioned in 1869 to construct the al-Rifa'i mosque in Cairo, which was not completed until 1912.

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