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A LARGE FATIMID BRONZE LAMPSTAND
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A LARGE FATIMID BRONZE LAMPSTAND

EGYPT, 11TH CENTURY

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A LARGE FATIMID BRONZE LAMPSTAND
Egypt, 11th century
Heavily cast in three parts, the shallow domed base with three hoof feet lightly engraved with scrolling vegetal motifs, rising to the separate stem with central hexagonal cylindrical section flanked by two spherical bosses, supporting the separate circular tray with lightly raised border, apparently plain apart from the traces of decoration on the base, old damages and repairs
25½in. (64.7cm.) high; top 15in. (37.8cm.) diam.
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The form and heavy casting of this piece are very similar to three other examples all of which are engraved with more decoration. One with hexagonal base is in the Islamic Museum in Cairo (Wiet, Gaston: Catalogue général du musée arabe du Caire, objets en cuivre, Cairo, 1984 reprint, no.8483, pl.XXV), while the others, with the circular base as found here, are in the al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait (Jenkins, Marilyn (ed.): Islamic Art in the Kuwait National Museum, London, 1983, p.66) and the David Collection, Copenhagen (von Folsach, Kjeld : Art from the World of Islam in the David Collection, Copenhagen, 2001, no.460, p.299). The small amount of decoration visible on the base here show that the original engraving on the present example was not as condensed as on the other three, which is appropriate for its larger size.