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Lot Essay
The inscription reads:
'izz li-mawlana al-sultan al-malik al-salih al-'a , lim al-'amil al-ghazi al-mujahid al-murabit al-muthaghir , al-mu'ayyad al-muzaffar al-munawwar sultan al-islam wa al-muslimin , qatil al-kafara wa al-mushrikin 'imad al-dunya wa al-din[ibn] isma'il (Glory to our Lord, the Sultan, al-Malik al-Salih, the Learned, the Diligent, the Conqueror, the Defender, the Protector of Frontiers, the Supported (by God), the Triumphant, the Enlightened, the Sultan of Islam and the Muslims, the Slayer of Infidels and Unbelievers, the Pillar of the World and Religion ('Imad al-Din) son of Isma'il).
In the roundels:
'izz li-mawlana al-sultan al-malik al-salih al-'alim al-'amil al-'adil al-mujahid (Glory to our Lord, the Sultan, al-Malik al-Salih, the Learned, the Diligent, the Just, the Defender).
There is also the name of a later owner in tughra form as: "Its owner Fatima daughter of Nasir ibn 'Abd al-Rabb"
Al-Malik al-Salih 'Imad al-Din [Abu'l- Fida] Isma'il was the son of al-Malik Nasir al-Din Muhammad Ibn Qalawun. He came to power on 22 Muharram 743 (12 June 1342) and died on 4 Rabi' II 746 (3 August 1345), at the age of twenty (L. A. Mayer, Saracenic Heraldry, Oxford, 1999, pp. 126-7).
This is the only known bowl with the name of Sultan al-Malik al-Salih Isma'il. Wiet writes of a number of other objects which bear his name including the body of a bottle in the Acheroff Collection (M. Gaston Wiet, Catalogue Général du Musée Arabe du Caire, Objets en Cuivre, Cairo, 1982, no.218, p.209), a plate in the Islamic Museum in Cairo (no. 9009, Wiet, op. cit., no. 217, p. 208), a candlestick in the Hariri collection which also bears the name of al-Malik Nasir Muhammad (no.40, Wiet, op. cit., p.10), and a cylindrical box in the Hariri collection (no.119, Wiet, op. cit., p.79).
'izz li-mawlana al-sultan al-malik al-salih al-'a , lim al-'amil al-ghazi al-mujahid al-murabit al-muthaghir , al-mu'ayyad al-muzaffar al-munawwar sultan al-islam wa al-muslimin , qatil al-kafara wa al-mushrikin 'imad al-dunya wa al-din[ibn] isma'il (Glory to our Lord, the Sultan, al-Malik al-Salih, the Learned, the Diligent, the Conqueror, the Defender, the Protector of Frontiers, the Supported (by God), the Triumphant, the Enlightened, the Sultan of Islam and the Muslims, the Slayer of Infidels and Unbelievers, the Pillar of the World and Religion ('Imad al-Din) son of Isma'il).
In the roundels:
'izz li-mawlana al-sultan al-malik al-salih al-'alim al-'amil al-'adil al-mujahid (Glory to our Lord, the Sultan, al-Malik al-Salih, the Learned, the Diligent, the Just, the Defender).
There is also the name of a later owner in tughra form as: "Its owner Fatima daughter of Nasir ibn 'Abd al-Rabb"
Al-Malik al-Salih 'Imad al-Din [Abu'l- Fida] Isma'il was the son of al-Malik Nasir al-Din Muhammad Ibn Qalawun. He came to power on 22 Muharram 743 (12 June 1342) and died on 4 Rabi' II 746 (3 August 1345), at the age of twenty (L. A. Mayer, Saracenic Heraldry, Oxford, 1999, pp. 126-7).
This is the only known bowl with the name of Sultan al-Malik al-Salih Isma'il. Wiet writes of a number of other objects which bear his name including the body of a bottle in the Acheroff Collection (M. Gaston Wiet, Catalogue Général du Musée Arabe du Caire, Objets en Cuivre, Cairo, 1982, no.218, p.209), a plate in the Islamic Museum in Cairo (no. 9009, Wiet, op. cit., no. 217, p. 208), a candlestick in the Hariri collection which also bears the name of al-Malik Nasir Muhammad (no.40, Wiet, op. cit., p.10), and a cylindrical box in the Hariri collection (no.119, Wiet, op. cit., p.79).