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Lot Essay
The inscription reads:
.............. al-sultan al-malik al-mansur al-malik al-'alim al-'adil al-mu'ayyid al-muzaffar nasr wa al-dunya wa al-din (Made to the order of our lord, the sultan, the king, the sovereign, the conqueror, the expeditious, the wise, the just, he who is assisted [by God], the victorious, Nasir (w')al-Dunya w'al-Din).
This string of titles is typical of items made for Sultan al-Malik al-Nasir Muhammad b. Qala'un (1299-1341 with two short interregna).
While the spiralling design behind the inscription is more normally associated with Persian rather than Mamluk metalwork, two other examples can be seen, both from the reign of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad (Wiet, G.: Catalogue Général du Musée Arabe du Caire: Objets en Cuivre, Cairo, 1984, no.3937, pp.96-97, pl.XLII (a bowl in the name of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad), and no.7852, pp.133-134, pl.XL (a basin in the name of Amir Tankiz)).
.............. al-sultan al-malik al-mansur al-malik al-'alim al-'adil al-mu'ayyid al-muzaffar nasr wa al-dunya wa al-din (Made to the order of our lord, the sultan, the king, the sovereign, the conqueror, the expeditious, the wise, the just, he who is assisted [by God], the victorious, Nasir (w')al-Dunya w'al-Din).
This string of titles is typical of items made for Sultan al-Malik al-Nasir Muhammad b. Qala'un (1299-1341 with two short interregna).
While the spiralling design behind the inscription is more normally associated with Persian rather than Mamluk metalwork, two other examples can be seen, both from the reign of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad (Wiet, G.: Catalogue Général du Musée Arabe du Caire: Objets en Cuivre, Cairo, 1984, no.3937, pp.96-97, pl.XLII (a bowl in the name of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad), and no.7852, pp.133-134, pl.XL (a basin in the name of Amir Tankiz)).