Lot 79
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A MAMLUK ENAMELLED GLASS SPRINKLER (OMOM)
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A MAMLUK ENAMELLED GLASS SPRINKLER (OMOM)

PROBABLY SYRIA, 14TH CENTURY

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A MAMLUK ENAMELLED GLASS SPRINKLER (OMOM)
PROBABLY SYRIA, 14TH CENTURY
With slightly flattened rounded body with kick foot rising through a construction to the tapering tubular neck with narrow mouth, the shoulder of the body with a broad band of swirling panels alternating linked flowerheads on a blue ground with gold details and delicate red scrolling designs, surface iridescence and some pitting, crack in neck, intact
7¼in. (18.4cm.) high
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Lot Essay

The decoration on this sprinkler is very unusual and difficult to parallel in Mamluk enamelled glass. It is however the precursor of a design that was hugely popular in later centuries, particularly in porcelains and glass made for the Islamic market in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For two enamelled Mamluk similar glass sprinklers sold in these Rooms please see 28 April 1992, lot 187 and 18 October 1994, lot 242.

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