A PAIR OF ENAMELLED GLASS MOSQUE LAMPS IN THE NAME OF 'ABBAS HILMI PASHA

EGYPT, DATED AH 1328/1910-11 AD

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A PAIR OF ENAMELLED GLASS MOSQUE LAMPS IN THE NAME OF 'ABBAS HILMI PASHA
EGYPT, DATED AH 1328/1910-11 AD
Each of typical Mamluk form with sloping rounded body and flared mouth on short foot, six simple loop handles around the body, the surface decorated in red and blue enamels and gilt with a band of red-outlined blue thuluth around the mouth, the underside of the body with similar calligraphy divided by three roundels giving the name of the patron as 'Abbas Hilmi, the body with double red band of strapwork forming drop shapes around the handles alternated with cartouches of floral panels reserved against blue ground, a band of red circles between cusped borders below, similar cusping between all registers
13in. (33.5cm.) high (2)

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Inscriptions: around the neck and base, Qur'an XXIV, (sura al-nur), v.35
In the roundels, in the inscriptions around the base, al-'izz li-mawlana al-khadiw 'abbas hilmi al-thani adama allah ayyamahu, 'Glory to our Lord the Khedive 'Abbas Hilmi the Second, may God prolong his days'

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