AN ISLAMIC ENAMELLED GLASS MOSQUE LAMP, NEAR EAST EARLY 19TH CENTURY AN ISLAMIC ENAMELLED GLASS MOSQUE LAMP, NEAR EAST EARLY 19TH CENTURY AN ISLAMIC ENAMELLED GLASS MOSQUE LAMP, NEAR EAST EARLY 19TH CENTURY AN ISLAMIC ENAMELLED GLASS MOSQUE LAMP, NEAR EAST EARLY 19TH CENTURY

AN ISLAMIC ENAMELLED GLASS MOSQUE LAMP, NEAR EAST EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Reference: ART3006605

A glass gilt and enamelled mosque lamp, of typical form on a short foot with six loop handles around the shoulder, decorated in polychrome and gold with inscriptions on a ground of vegetal interlace, the neck with inscriptions interspersed by floral motifs-filled roundels, the lower body with arabesques and roundels filled with vegetal motifs. Height 21.2 cm.

Inscriptions: Around the neck: Surah al-nur, parts of verse 35. Around the body, 'izz li-mawlana/ al-sultan/al-malik/ al-ashraf/al-alalm/al-gazi. ("Glory to our lord, the sultan, al-Malik, the worldly,the conqueror"). Around the base in roundels:" azza [na]srahu, may his victory be glorified".

The lamp is inscribed with the first lines of the Qur'anic Verse of Light, a reminder that Mosque lamps served a symbolic function as a physical manifestation of the light of Allah.