PROBABLY FRANCE, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

細節

A MAMLUK-STYLE ENAMELLED AND GILDED BLUE GLASS MOSQUE LAMP
Probably France, second half 19th Century
Of typical form with rounded body and flaring trumpet mouth on short foot, three applied loop handles around the body, decorated throughout with enamels and gilding, the body with a band of green naskh honorific inscription on a ground of polychrome scrolling vine, bands of gilt geometric interlace above and below, the mouth with a similar band of naskh inscription interrupted by green ground arabesque interlace roundels, similar bands of meandering palmette vine above and below, the underside of the foot with a green enamelled band around the rosette shaped pointil, gilding slightly rubbed
10 5/8in. (26.8cm.) high

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拍品專文

The main inscription around the body reads:
'izz li-mawlana al-sultan al-malik al-'alim al-'adil al-malik al-nasir (glory to our lord, the sultan, the king, the wise, the just, al-Malik al-Nasir).

Two other blue glass lamps with notably spherical body, one formerly in the Mannheim Collection, Paris, and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the other from the collection of Baroness Batsheva de Rothschild, sold in these Rooms 14 December 2000, lot 11 are probably from the same atelier (for the Metropolitan example please see Schmoranz, G.: Old Oriental Gilt and Enamelled Glass Vessels, English Version, Vienna and London, 1899, pl. XXVIII). The links in design of the present lamp with others mentioned in the note on the Rothschild lamp indicate that all three were the product of the same manufactory in Paris.