A LARGE LATE MAMLUK BRASS BASIN

EGYPT OR SYRIA, EARLY 15TH CENTURY

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A LARGE LATE MAMLUK BRASS BASIN
EGYPT OR SYRIA, EARLY 15TH CENTURY
With slightly rounded base, inverted sides and wide flaring rim, the exterior engraved with a broad band of interlaced cartouches containing honorific thuluth inscription, arabesque interlace and continuous knot motifs, the intersticies with palmettes, a band of scrolling vine above, the interior with similar decoration, areas of rubbing, base reduced
18in. (46cm.) diam.

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By descent within an Alexandrine family until sold in these Rooms, 25 November 1985, lot 352

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Romain Pingannaud

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This basin provides strong support for the theory that the so-called Veneto-Saracenic metalwork was produced in Syria or Egypt rather than by Muslim craftsmen settled in Venice. The plaited kufic inscriptions, decorative rather than meaningful, are features of much Veneto-Saracenic work of the late 15th century. The basin shows that this type of plaited kufic was already an accepted decorative feature of Mamluk metalwork in the early 15th century. It was a development of the meaningful plaited inscriptions found on Mamluk metalwork of the 14th century (cf. Exhibition of Islamic Art in Egypt, Cairo, 1969, no. 80, pl. 16(a)).