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拍品专文
The spiral fluting on the base of this lance head can also be seen on an example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York with which also has a triple-edged point (14.25.474; David Alexander, Islamic Arms and Armor in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015, p.230). It also appears as a key design feature on the shafts of three maces, one in the Wallace Collection, London, and two in the Topkapı Palace collection (OA1543, Thom Richardson and Paula Turner (eds.), The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Arms & Armour from Asia, Africa and the Ottoman World, London, 2026, p.369; Hans Stöcklein, “Die Waffenschatze im Topkapu Sarayi zu Istanbul – Ein Vorläufiger Bericht", Ars Islamica 1, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1934, pp.214-5).
Hans Stöcklein attributes one of the Topkapı Palace maces to 15th century Egypt on the basis of the distinctive spiral fluting also used in architecture during this period, although perhaps the most compelling uses of this motif date to the second half of the 14th century, as seen on the dome of the Mosque of Aytmish al-Bajasi, Cairo, completed in 1383 AD, and the columns of the north façade of the Sultan Hasan complex, Cairo, completed between 1356 and 1363 AD. Though not mentioned by Stöcklein, this earlier attribution is strengthened by the record of the other, closely comparable mace, as having been acquired by the Ottoman Sultan Selim I (r.1512-20) during his conquest of the Mamluk sultanate in 1517 (L.A. Mayer, “A New Heraldic Emblem of the Mamlūks”, Ars Islamica 4, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1937, pp. 348-51). The present lance head, like the maces, represents a high point of fine arms and armour manufacturing owing to the understated austerity of their design and impeccable execution of form.
Hans Stöcklein attributes one of the Topkapı Palace maces to 15th century Egypt on the basis of the distinctive spiral fluting also used in architecture during this period, although perhaps the most compelling uses of this motif date to the second half of the 14th century, as seen on the dome of the Mosque of Aytmish al-Bajasi, Cairo, completed in 1383 AD, and the columns of the north façade of the Sultan Hasan complex, Cairo, completed between 1356 and 1363 AD. Though not mentioned by Stöcklein, this earlier attribution is strengthened by the record of the other, closely comparable mace, as having been acquired by the Ottoman Sultan Selim I (r.1512-20) during his conquest of the Mamluk sultanate in 1517 (L.A. Mayer, “A New Heraldic Emblem of the Mamlūks”, Ars Islamica 4, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1937, pp. 348-51). The present lance head, like the maces, represents a high point of fine arms and armour manufacturing owing to the understated austerity of their design and impeccable execution of form.