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拍品專文
Two of the four cartouches are inscribed in Mamluk thuluth: al-maqarr al-'ali al-mawlawi al-'alimi , al-'amili al-'adili al-ghaz[i] al-malik (His Excellency the Exalted, Lordly, the Learned, the Virtuous, the Just, the Victorious King).
The inscriptions in the other two cartouches are rendered in an unusual script in which the vertical shafts of the letters are crossed in a pincer-like ornament. This feature is associated with brasses of the reign of Sultan Qaitbay (1468-1496 AD). In this bowl these inscriptions are decorative rather than legible. For other examples of this script see a candlestick and a bowl, each bearing the name of Qaitbay (E. Atil, Renaissance of Islam - Art of the Mamluks, Washington, 1981, nos.34 and 35, pp.100-103). Another bowl made for the same patron with the same features is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. There is also a silver-inlaid brass bowl made for an unnamed patron decorated with similar purely decorative script in the Musée du Louvre (G. Migeon, Musée du Louvre, L'Orient Musulman: Sculpture ..... Cuivres, Paris, 1922, no.113, pl.19).
In the same museum is a gold and silver inlaid brass covered bowl of very similar form and function to the present example, save that the rim has ten or twelve light facets. The arrangement of the lid is precisely the same (G. Migeon, op.cit. pl.25, no.109, and G. Migeon, Exposition des Arts Musulmans au Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1903, pl.22 lower)
The inscriptions in the other two cartouches are rendered in an unusual script in which the vertical shafts of the letters are crossed in a pincer-like ornament. This feature is associated with brasses of the reign of Sultan Qaitbay (1468-1496 AD). In this bowl these inscriptions are decorative rather than legible. For other examples of this script see a candlestick and a bowl, each bearing the name of Qaitbay (E. Atil, Renaissance of Islam - Art of the Mamluks, Washington, 1981, nos.34 and 35, pp.100-103). Another bowl made for the same patron with the same features is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. There is also a silver-inlaid brass bowl made for an unnamed patron decorated with similar purely decorative script in the Musée du Louvre (G. Migeon, Musée du Louvre, L'Orient Musulman: Sculpture ..... Cuivres, Paris, 1922, no.113, pl.19).
In the same museum is a gold and silver inlaid brass covered bowl of very similar form and function to the present example, save that the rim has ten or twelve light facets. The arrangement of the lid is precisely the same (G. Migeon, op.cit. pl.25, no.109, and G. Migeon, Exposition des Arts Musulmans au Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1903, pl.22 lower)