A LARGE MAMLUK SILVER-INLAID BRASS BASIN

EGYPT, AL-NASIR MUHAMMAD PERIOD, 1293-1341 AD

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A LARGE MAMLUK SILVER-INLAID BRASS BASIN
EGYPT, AL-NASIR MUHAMMAD PERIOD, 1293-1341 AD
With tall slightly tapering walls and flaring mouth, the engraved and silver-inlaid decoration with an inscription in large thuluth script on dense palmette scrolls interrupted by three roundels, each of these roundels with a radiating calligraphic inscription bordered with bold lotus flowers and palmettes in the shape of birds, a frieze of drop-motifs above the main register, the ground inlaid with black composition, the cavetto with similar thuluth inscription divided by six roundels with a small central rosette surrounded by birds, the lip with lines of meandering vine and geometrical motifs, the interior with a solar motif and six fish, the base reduced, most inlay missing, rubbed
18 7/8in. (48cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

The inscription around the body reads al-maqarr al-'ali al-mawlawi al-(a)miri al-maliki al-'alimi al-'alimi al-'adili al-ghazi al-mujahidi al-murabiti al-maliki al-nasir (His Excellency the Exalted, the Lordly, the Amir, the Learned, the Learned, the Just, the Victorious, who fight God's cause, the Defender, [the amir of] al-Malik al-Nasir).

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