Lot 357
  • 357

A North African blue and white ceramic mosque lamp, Maghreb or Egypt, circa 1700

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description

  • ceramic
of baluster form with bulbous body, waisted neck and flaring rim, supported on a tall splayed base, with three lug handles applied at the lower neck, decorated in underglaze cobalt blue and turquoise, the body with a trellis of floral rosettes and quatrefoils interspersed with scrolls and feathered leaves, the neck with flowering plants and dotted border to the rim, the base with flutes and dot patterning

Exhibited

Exposition d'Art Musulman, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1903

Literature

Exposition d'Art Musulman, Paris, 1903, p.42