A MAMLUK SILVER AND GOLD INLAID ROSEWATER SPRINKLER
A MAMLUK SILVER AND GOLD INLAID ROSEWATER SPRINKLER

THE BODY EGYPT, FIRST HALF 14TH CENTURY

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A MAMLUK SILVER AND GOLD INLAID ROSEWATER SPRINKLER
THE BODY EGYPT, FIRST HALF 14TH CENTURY
The spherical body on short foot rising to the neck, the later Ottoman brass neck of tapering hexagonal-section tubular form with bud finial, the body engraved and originally inlaid with a band of very elegant Mamluk thuluth against a scrolling ground, a band of lozenge panels above and below containing floral motifs occasionally replaced by rosette roundels, a band of interlaced meandering vine below, similar vertical facets at the base of the neck, the later neck undecorated, rubbed, little inlay remaining, traces of applied handle and drilled hole for later adaptation into a jug, now restored
8 3/8in. (21.4cm.) high
来源
Anon sale in the Rooms, 8 April 2008, lot 83

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Andrew Butler-Wheelhouse
Andrew Butler-Wheelhouse

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The inscription reads, al-maqarr al-karim al-'ali al-mawlawi (al-ma) , al-maliki al-'alimi al-mukhtara[mi] al-makhdumi, 'For the Honourable Authority, the High, the Lordly, the Posessor, the Learned, the Revered, the Well Served'.

The repairs to the body of this bottle indicate that at one stage it had been converted to a ewer. The present form, depsite the later neck and mouth, is closer to the original concept. A bottle of similar form with the name of Sultan Hassan can be found in the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo (inv. No. 15111; Esin Atil, Renaissance of Islam. Art of the Mamluks, Washington D.C., 1981, no. 31, p. 98). Not only does the present bottle relate to the Cairo example in form, but also bears similarity in the basis of the decorative registers, notably the central register with large inscription broken by cusped medallions.