Mosque Lamp
1382 - 1399 (made)
| Place of origin |
Lamp of colourless glass with decoration in enamels and traces of gilding. A high, flaring neck rises from the container that forms the main body of the lamp. Above, this container has the approximate shape of a truncated cone with rounded edges; below, it slopes down to the low foot. An inscription appears in the three blazons on the base of the container. The container is equipped with six suspension rings.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Painted enamels and gilding on glass |
| Brief description | Mosque lamp, painted enamels and gold on colourless glass, Egypt, Mamluk period, 1382-1399 |
| Physical description | Lamp of colourless glass with decoration in enamels and traces of gilding. A high, flaring neck rises from the container that forms the main body of the lamp. Above, this container has the approximate shape of a truncated cone with rounded edges; below, it slopes down to the low foot. An inscription appears in the three blazons on the base of the container. The container is equipped with six suspension rings. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | (Al-Malik al-Zahir can be identified with Sultan Barquq, who ruled from 1382 to 1399, on the basis of the fuller inscriptions found on the main bodies of 325 and 326-1900, which share several features with 321-1900.)
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| Gallery label | |
| Object history | 59 glass lamps made for Barquq survive: 25 in the Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo; 22 in the mosque of Imam Husayn in Cairo; 12 dispersed in museum collections outside Egypt. (Information published by Alaa El-Din Mahmoud in 2016 on the basis of a master's thesis by Mayisa Mahmud Dawud (Cairo University, 1971).) Formerly owned by William Joseph Myers; purchased from his estate in 1900. |
| Bibliographic reference | B. D. Boehm and M. Holcomb, Jerusalem 1000–1400: Every People Under Heaven (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016): Cat. no. 135b. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 321-1900 |
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| Record created | December 13, 1997 |
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