A MAMLUK SILVER-INLAID BOWL FOR EXPORT
A MAMLUK SILVER-INLAID BOWL FOR EXPORT

MAMLUK SYRIA, LATE 15TH CENTURY

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A MAMLUK SILVER-INLAID BOWL FOR EXPORT
MAMLUK SYRIA, LATE 15TH CENTURY
Of rounded form with small waisted section and slightly flaring rim, the base with engraved central roundel containing interlocking palmettes surrounded by a band of scrolling vine, around this large cusped palmettes in a radial design, all on ground of tight scrolling vine, the sides with four roundels alternating with blazons and scrolling vine set on lattice ground and knotted rosettes, bordered below by a band of silver inlaid psuedo-calligraphy and above and below with bands of scrolling vine, rim with pearl border, old repairs
5 7/8in. (15cm.) diam.

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Andrew Butler-Wheelhouse
Andrew Butler-Wheelhouse

拍品專文

A slightly larger bowl in the Victoria and Albert Museum is of almost identical form and decoration to our bowl, (inv. 1686-1889, Sylvia Auld, Renaissance Venice, Islam and Mahmud the Kurd. A Metalworking Enigma, 2004, no. 4.1, p. 208), Auld compares the bowl in the Victoria and Albert museum to a basin made for the Mamluk Sultan Qai't Bay (r. 1468-1496), in the Turk ve Islam Eserleri Muzesi (TIEM) in Istanbul, (S. S. Blair and J. Bloom, The Art and Architecture of Islam 1250-1800, New York, 1994, fig. 142, p. 111). Our bowl probably also dates to the late 15th Century, however the European-style blazons engraved and inlaid on the side of this bowl indicate that it was destined for export to Europe.

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