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Lot 557
Sale 5580 - Gentlemen Collectors: The Lucas Family of Baltimore
May 23, 2018
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$1,000 -
1,500
Lot Description
A French Mamluk style gilt and enameled glass mosque lamp second half 19th century
The compressed conical body with exaggerated flared rim, the neck enameled with Thuluth script calligraphy above a double parcel-gilt foliate band, the body with three applied loop handles segmenting a band of blue ground with vacant Thuluth script calligraphy against a blue enamel ground, the underside decorated with alternating polychrome-filled reserves against a parcel-gilt ground of arabesques.
H: 12 3/4 in.