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Lot 997
A MAMLUK TINNED-COPPER BOWL
EGYPT, 15TH CENTURY
Closed10 May 2018
Price Realised
USD 5,250
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Specialist note
In the cartouches around the body, with parts missing and words repeated, Arabic verses:
balaghta min al-‘ulya a‘la [a]l-mara[tib] / al-maratib
wa qaranaka al / wa qaranaka al-taw/fiq [a]l-tawfiq min kull janib
wa / la zalta marghuban ilayka / ilayka wa [ba]sitan
yamin[ayka fi’]l-dun[ya bi-nayl al-maratib]
“You have reached through greatness the highest of ranks,
And success has accompanied you on all sides,
You continue to be desired and to stretch
Out your hands into the world in the attainment of rank.”
These verses are commonly found on 15th-century Mamluk metalwork. (Doris Behrens-Abousaif, “Veneto-Saracenic Metalware in Mamluk Art”, in Mamluk Studies Review IX (2), 2005, p. 150).
balaghta min al-‘ulya a‘la [a]l-mara[tib] / al-maratib
wa qaranaka al / wa qaranaka al-taw/fiq [a]l-tawfiq min kull janib
wa / la zalta marghuban ilayka / ilayka wa [ba]sitan
yamin[ayka fi’]l-dun[ya bi-nayl al-maratib]
“You have reached through greatness the highest of ranks,
And success has accompanied you on all sides,
You continue to be desired and to stretch
Out your hands into the world in the attainment of rank.”
These verses are commonly found on 15th-century Mamluk metalwork. (Doris Behrens-Abousaif, “Veneto-Saracenic Metalware in Mamluk Art”, in Mamluk Studies Review IX (2), 2005, p. 150).