Mosque Lamp
1347-1361 (made)
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Mosque lamp, gilded and enamelled glass, decorated with lotus flowers, peonies and leaves in red outline reserve against blue ground
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Gilt and enamelled glass, blown with applied foot |
| Brief description | Mosque lamp, probably made for Mamluk Sultan al-Nasir Hasan, Egypt, 1347-1361 |
| Physical description | Mosque lamp, gilded and enamelled glass, decorated with lotus flowers, peonies and leaves in red outline reserve against blue ground |
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| Gallery label | Probably made for a mosque of the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt, al-Nasir Hasan who ruled 1347-51 and again in 1354-61. |
| Object history | A mosque lamp with the same decoration of lotus flowers against a blue enamelled ground is in the Wallace Collection (inv. C512). This bears the blazon of the Great Amir Sayf al-Din Shaykhu al-'Umari, who held this office from 1354 until his death in 1357. He was an important officer at the court of Sultan Hasan and was honoured with this title for helping Hasan to regain the throne in 1354. See Suzanne Higgott, Catalogue of Glass and Limoges Painted Enamels (Wallace Collection, London, 2011), cat.no.1, pp. 38-45. |
| Bibliographic reference | Artin Pasha BJE (1866;p.136), Wiet catalogue pl.XXII |
| Other number | 8257 - Glass gallery number |
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| Accession number | 324-1900 |
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| Record created | December 13, 1997 |
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