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A MAMLUK ENAMELLED GLASS BEAKER
- SYRIA, 13TH CENTURY

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A MAMLUK ENAMELLED GLASS BEAKER
SYRIA, 13TH CENTURY
Price Realized
(Set Currency)
  • £3,600
  • ($6,872)
  • Price includes buyer's premium
Estimate
    £3,000 - £5,000
  • ($5,727 - $9,545)

Sale Information

Sale 7038
ISLAMIC ART AND MANUSCRIPTS
26 April 2005
London, King Street





Lot Description

A MAMLUK ENAMELLED GLASS BEAKER
SYRIA, 13TH CENTURY
Of high cylindrical form widely flaring at the mouth, the exterior with two white and blue enamelled quatrefoil medallions linked by a band of gold naskh inscription written against a red band on the interior, areas of encrustation and damage to enamel, intact
5¾in. (14.5cm.) high

Special Notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Notes

Much of the inscription is illegible, but what can be read shows it to have been a typical Mamluk honorific legend beginning 'izz li-mawlana al-malik........ (glory to our lord the king ........).

This form of glass beaker with a single band of decoration most of the way up the body is generally attributed to the Syrian region in the second half of the 13th century. What was probably a nest of four other examples (or maybe what remains of a much larger set) survives, three in the Khalili collection; the fourth in the al-Sabah Collection (Michail Piotrovsky and John Vrieze (eds.): Earthly Beauty, Heavenly Art, Amsterdam, 1999, no.169, p.202; Stefano Carboni: Glass from Islamic Lands, London, 2001, no.87, pp.334-5).