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Lot 115*,R

A Mamluk Revival silver-inlaid brass vase with the cup-bearer's arms
Egypt or Syria, 19th/ 20th Century

12 November 2024, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £768 inc. premium

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A Mamluk Revival silver-inlaid brass vase with the cup-bearer's arms
Egypt or Syria, 19th/ 20th Century

of inverted piriform with flaring base and short neck with slightly everted rim, engraved and decorated in silver inlay with inscription-filled roundels to the body with central blazon, interspersed by further roundels and cartouches containing vegetal interlace, the shoulder with bands of vegetal and geometric interlace above and below a band of rosettes and cartouches containing inscriptions and vegetal designs
32.1 cm. high

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Provenance
Private UK collection, acquired at Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 16 October 2003, lot 452.

Inscriptions: to the roundels to the body, 'izz li-mawlana ... al-maliki al-'alimi al-mawlaw[i] al-sultan, 'Glory to our lord, ... the possessor, the learned, the lordly, the sultan', al-'alima (sic) ... al-sultan, al-maliki al-mawlaw[i] al-nasiri, 'The learned ... the sultan, the possessor, the lordly, [an official of] al-Nasir'; to the cartouches around the shoulder, 'izz li-mawlana al-sultan, al-'alim al-maliki al-nasirial', 'Glory to our lord, sultan, the learned, the possessor, [an official of] al-Nasir', and '... al-maliki al-'alim ... al-'alima (sic), '... the possessor, the learned ... the learned.'

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