Bowl
1300-1400 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Tinned copper footed bowl, engraved with titles and blazons of Saif al-Din Tashtimur, great Dawadar of Sultan al-Ashaf Sha'aban.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tinned copper, engraved |
| Brief description | Middle East, Metalwork. Footed bowl, tinned copper with engraved decoration and Arabic inscriptions giving honorific titles and blazons, Mamluk Egypt, 1370-1400 |
| Physical description | Tinned copper footed bowl, engraved with titles and blazons of Saif al-Din Tashtimur, great Dawadar of Sultan al-Ashaf Sha'aban. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | المقر الكريم العالي المولوي الاميري الكبيري السيف طشتمر داوادار الملكي الاشرفيي عز نصره (Text and translation after Mayer.)
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| Object history | The blazon has a pen box on the middle field. Mayer identified the owner as Tashtimur, who served al-Malik al-Ashraf Sha'ban as Dawadar between his accession in 1363 and 1370, when Tashtimur was promoted to Viceroy of Egypt. |
| Bibliographic reference | L.A. Mayer, Saracenic Heraldry. A Survey, Oxford, 1933, p.225. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 857-1901 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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