A MAMLUK REVIVAL SILVER AND COPPER INLAID BASIN AND DISH...
A MAMLUK REVIVAL SILVER AND COPPER INLAID BASIN AND DISH
Damascus, Syria, early 20th century
Brass, both of circular form, the basin of early Mamluk shape with tapering sides, decorated with palmettes within lunettes against an interlaced Y-patterned ground, interspersed with calligraphic inscriptions; the dish with radial calligraphy around the centre, filled with arabesques, and friezes within cartouches at the rim.
The dish 33cm diameter, the basin 10 x 22cm (2)
Literature:
Baboula E., and Milwright M., Damascene 'Trench Art': a Note on the Manufacture of Mamluk Revival Metalwork in Early 20th century Syria, in 'Levant' 2014, vol. 46, no. 3.;
Vernoit, S. 1997. Occidentalism. Islamic Art in the 19th Century. The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art 23. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press and Azimuth Editions.
More specific about the Damascene industry is an Arabic text entitled, Qamus al-sinat al-shamiyya (Dictionary of Damascene Crafts) and its international reviews, among which the most notable one is Metalworking in Damascus at the end of the Ottoman period: an analysis of the Qamus al-Sinat al-Shamiyya. in, Porter, V. and Rosser-Owen, M. (eds) 'Metalwork and Material Culture in the Islamic World: Art, Crafts and Text.' Essays presented to James W. Allan: 265 80, London, I.B. Tauris.
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A MAMLUK REVIVAL SILVER AND COPPER INLAID BASIN AND DISH
Damascus, Syria, early 20th century
Brass, both of circular form, the basin of early Mamluk shape with tapering sides, decorated with palmettes within lunettes against an interlaced Y-patterned ground, interspersed with calligraphic inscriptions; the dish with radial calligraphy around the centre, filled with arabesques, and friezes within cartouches at the rim.
The dish 33cm diameter, the basin 10 x 22cm (2)
Literature:
Baboula E., and Milwright M., Damascene 'Trench Art': a Note on the Manufacture of Mamluk Revival Metalwork in Early 20th century Syria, in 'Levant' 2014, vol. 46, no. 3.;
Vernoit, S. 1997. Occidentalism. Islamic Art in the 19th Century. The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art 23. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press and Azimuth Editions.
More specific about the Damascene industry is an Arabic text entitled, Qamus al-sinat al-shamiyya (Dictionary of Damascene Crafts) and its international reviews, among which the most notable one is Metalworking in Damascus at the end of the Ottoman period: an analysis of the Qamus al-Sinat al-Shamiyya. in, Porter, V. and Rosser-Owen, M. (eds) 'Metalwork and Material Culture in the Islamic World: Art, Crafts and Text.' Essays presented to James W. Allan: 265 80, London, I.B. Tauris.
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