Beaker
1250-1350 (made)
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This enamelled glass drinking vessel features a simple horizontal band with two heraldic badges and an Arabic inscription, with the phrase "Glory to our Lord the Sultan the King". Around the horizontal band, small fish and leaves are painted lightly onto the clear glass. The two white roundels each feature a red lion, which may refer to the royal emblem of the Mamluk Sultan Baybars, who ruled Syria and Egypt from 1260 to 1277. The lion motif also continued to decorate examples of Mamluk enamelled glass after the reign of Baybars, into the 14th century.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Gilded and enamelled glass |
| Brief description | Glass beaker decorated in coloured enamels, with lion blazon and Arabic inscription, Mamluk Egypt or Syria, 1260-1277 |
| Physical description | Glass beaker, with painted enamel decoration of a horizontal frieze, with Mamluk blazon of a red lion in a white roundel, and Arabic inscription against blue ground. Above and below the frieze, fish and leaf motifs are painted in red outline against clear glass. Inscribed "`izz li- maulana, al-Sultan al-Malik" (Glory to our Lord the Sultan the King). |
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| Marks and inscriptions | ''izz li-maulana al-Sultan al-Malik' (Decoration; Arabic)
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| Gallery label | Probably made for use at the court of Sultan of Egypt, Baybers I (1260-77), whose personal crest was a lion. |
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| Summary | This enamelled glass drinking vessel features a simple horizontal band with two heraldic badges and an Arabic inscription, with the phrase "Glory to our Lord the Sultan the King". Around the horizontal band, small fish and leaves are painted lightly onto the clear glass. The two white roundels each feature a red lion, which may refer to the royal emblem of the Mamluk Sultan Baybars, who ruled Syria and Egypt from 1260 to 1277. The lion motif also continued to decorate examples of Mamluk enamelled glass after the reign of Baybars, into the 14th century. |
| Bibliographic reference | Lamm (1930;p.344) |
| Other number | 8301 - Glass gallery number |
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| Accession number | 335-1900 |
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| Record created | December 13, 1997 |
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