of truncated conical form with flattened drip tray, the tapering neck terminating in a tapering raised band, engraved with a band of thuluth inscription interspersed by roundels containing birds, all on a ground of vegetal interlace, the shoulder and neck with further bands of inscription, the border and interstices with undulating vines, cable design and stylised foliate motifs, traces of silver inlay
18.4 cm. high

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Provenance:
La Comtesse de Broissia-Tortillia, Alexandria; and by descent.

Inscriptions: around the body in thuluth, al-'izz wa al-iqbal daman/wa al-baqa laka ayyuha al-maw/la al-kabir al-sha'n, 'May there be ever-lasting Glory and Prosperity and Long-life for you O my Lord of great authority'; around the shoulder, repeat of possibly al-'izz al-da'im, 'Perpetual Glory'.

For a discussion of a group of similar candlesticks with distinctive casting residue found inside, see Rachel Ward, 'Tradition and Innovation: a group of candlesticks made in Mamluk Egypt' in James Allan (ed.), Islamic Art in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Studies in Islamic Art, vol. 10, 1995, Part II, pp. 147-158.

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- Islamic and Indian Art

A Mamluk silver-inlaid brass Candlestick Egypt or Syria, late 13th/ early 14th Century

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