Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs & Carpets
Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs & Carpets
TWO MINIATURE MAMLUK SILVER AND GOLD-INLAID BRASS CANDLESTICKS, EGYPT OR SYRIA, EARLY 15TH CENTURY
Auction Closed
June 10, 06:00 PM GMT
Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 GBP
Lot Details
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TWO MINIATURE MAMLUK SILVER AND GOLD-INLAID BRASS CANDLESTICKS, EGYPT OR SYRIA, EARLY 15TH CENTURY
each with splayed body with straight drip-pan and straight cylindrical neck, engraved and inlaid in silver and gold with quadrupeds and birds between trees, stylised foliage on drip tray, knotted design on necks, each with old collector's number '11556' to interior
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12.7 and 12.5cm. height
This near pair of delicately decorated miniature candlesticks were very fashionable with the fifteenth century Venetian elite as attested by models found with local coats of arms (see two in the Museo Correr's collection, published in Carboni 2007, p.65, cat. nos.95-96). It is now accepted amongst scholars that these were made in the Islamic world and exported.