A LIGHT BLUE GLASS MOSQUE LAMP

PROBABLY NISHAPUR, NORTH EAST PERSIA, 10TH CENTURY

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A LIGHT BLUE GLASS MOSQUE LAMP
PROBABLY NISHAPUR, NORTH EAST PERSIA, 10TH CENTURY
The rounded body resting on a short foot flaring to an inverted conical mouth, the body plain save for six trailed cobalt-blue bands running down from the suspension loops to the base with applied smaller loops, one small clean rim break, otherwise good condition
5in. (14.7cm.) high

拍品專文

The form of both is immediately associated with Mamluk Syrian enamelled glass lamps, but fragments of an example of very similar form was also discovered at Nishapur (Krger, Jens: Nishapur, Glass of the Early Islamic Period, New York, 1995, no.235, p.182). The same form is also depicted in a stone relief at Kharraqan dating from 1067-8 AD (Krger, op.cit., p.179). An almost identical lamp, albeit in poorer condition, was offered in these Rooms 24 April 1990, lot 469.