TWELVE CARVED IVORY AND WOOD MAMLUK PLAQUES, EGYPT CIRCA 1320 TWELVE CARVED IVORY AND WOOD MAMLUK PLAQUES, EGYPT CIRCA 1320

TWELVE CARVED IVORY AND WOOD MAMLUK PLAQUES, EGYPT CIRCA 1320

Reference: ART3002873

Carved ivory and wood. 11 cm. length

PROVENANCE Private collection, United Kingdom

CATALOGUE NOTE A pair of doors in the Charles Gillot Collection (Christie’s, Paris, 4th-5th March, 2008, lot 45) has similar plaques with alternating designs. See also: Esin Atil, Renaissance of Islam, Art of the Mamluks, Washington D.C., 1981, no. 104