AN OPENWORK GILT BRONZE BANNER STAFF HEAD (ALAM) OTTOMAN, TURKEY, 15TH-16TH CENTURY AN OPENWORK GILT BRONZE BANNER STAFF HEAD (ALAM) OTTOMAN, TURKEY, 15TH-16TH CENTURY AN OPENWORK GILT BRONZE BANNER STAFF HEAD (ALAM) OTTOMAN, TURKEY, 15TH-16TH CENTURY AN OPENWORK GILT BRONZE BANNER STAFF HEAD (ALAM) OTTOMAN, TURKEY, 15TH-16TH CENTURY AN OPENWORK GILT BRONZE BANNER STAFF HEAD (ALAM) OTTOMAN, TURKEY, 15TH-16TH CENTURY

AN OPENWORK GILT BRONZE BANNER STAFF HEAD (ALAM) OTTOMAN, TURKEY, 15TH-16TH CENTURY

Reference: ART3003456

Alam rising from a conical shaft. The hollow palmetto-shaped head, engraved in Kufic script on both sides, with a motto proclaiming: 'There is no god but God, and Muhammad is the messenger of God.'
60 cm. height, 20 cm. width

Inscriptions. With a probably later engraved inscription. 'The alam of the house of Hazrat Abbas, uncle of the Messenger of God Muhammad Sheikh Syed Sebaei Abu Bakr-Omar-Ali-Hassan -Hussein -Abbas-Fatema'.