Oliver White
Head of Department
Lot 48*
Five Mamluk pottery Fragments including two with Cup-Bearers Arms Egypt, 14th Century(5)
8 April 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£3,000 - £5,000
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Five Mamluk pottery Fragments including two with Cup-Bearers Arms
Egypt, 14th Century
Egypt, 14th Century
comprising two fragmentary pottery bowls, the first on a splayed foot with wide flaring rim, incised through a mustard slip and embellished in manganese brown with a central roundel containing the Cupbearer's Arms, the rim with a band of inscription interspersed with shield motifs; the second bowl of rounded form on tall foot, incised through a green ground and embellished with manganese purple with a central roundel surrounded by radiating lines, the panels between containing circle and diamond motifs; and three further pottery fragments including a bowl fragment with a large roundel containing the Cupbearer's Arms; another with a partial roundel containing the Armsbearer's Arms; the third with stylised foliate decoration
the largest 22 cm. diam.(5)
the largest 22 cm. diam.(5)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Private collection;
Three of the pieces acquired Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 15th April 2010, lot 194; and Islamic and Indian Art, 5th April 2011, lot 93.
Inscriptions: to the rim of the large bowl, al-mawlana .... al-nasir ..... "Our lord ..../....../....../ Al-Nasir ...."