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medallions similar in kind to those on the neck-frieze.
These Reids are divided horizontally by means of an
ornamental hand on a blue ground. On the axis of the
divisions, triangles are placed, formed by a twining band of
blue, and having their basis resting on the periphery. The
Rlling-up of these triangles consists of filigree ornament,
and a little cartouche in the middle containing a Rower
on a blue ground. The angles of the Reids are decorated
with green-yellow and red-white-blue enamelled leaves and
blossoms. The motif of the triangle appears again, in
simpler form, in the three Reids of the foot-frieze, but here
the detail of ornament is converse, the outside angles being
occupied with Rligree decoration, and the triangles with
enamelled leaves and blossoms.
All the enamel is superimposed thickly.
The whole vessel, from its topmost rim to its foot, was
originally gilt, the enamelled places and the ground of the
Rligree ornamentation excepted.
The blue inscription on the neck is a verse from the
III AND IIlA.
GREAT MOSQUE-LAMP.
Thick glass, little transparent.
The round, bellying, body is very broad in the lower
third part of its size, but narrows conically above and
below; with a wide funnel-neck, and resting on a strong
riveted foot. The six handles set on thei upper surface of
the body are particularly strong.
The vessel is somewhat deformed by the Rre.
The decoration is divided into Rve friezes separated
from each other by blank intervals. The broad uppermost
R'ieze is divided by three large medallions into Reids which
are decorated with large blue letters of the round sort.
Small characters of the same kind decorate the cross bars
of the medallions.
The lower neck-frieze, which is narrow, is divided into
six Reids by small encircled medallions, decorated with
lilies, the Reids enclosing Rligree ornament, with Rying
Fia. 43. on lYale II. (One-/b:M'^I 77te .size o/* %Ae oriyinal.)
Fia. 44. De7a77 q/ IIKyi'ce-ontamens on Ude II.
(Oriywd SMO.)
Kur'an Sura 24, verse 35 : " Allah is the light of Heaven
and Earth. His light is like a lantern . ."
The large inscription on the body (Rg. 43) runs thus :
" Glory to our Lord the Sultan an Nasir Nasir ad Dunya-
wa-d-din (Helper of the world and the faith) Hasan son
of Muhammad. Glory to his Victory ! "
Sultan Hasan, son of Sultan Malik Nasir Muhammad,
ruled in Egypt and Syria from 1347 to 1351 and 1354 to
1361 (having been deposed during the interval). His
renowned mosque in Cairo was built in 1356-1359, and
from it the lamp we are describing was probably taken.
It came into the Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum in Vienna
(along with the lamp Rgured on plate III) with the
ethnographic collection of the Emperor Maximilian, R*om
the castle of Miramar in which it had been placed by the
Emperor (then an Austrian Archduke) on his return from
a journey in the East.
The vessel is undamaged ; the enamels are in very
good condition; visible traces remain of the gilding on
the neck.
Height 400 mm.
birds (Rg. 45). The broadest upper-frieze on the body,
in which the handles are placed, has an ornamental division
by means of bands enamelled white. These bands leave
untouched plain pointed medallions round the handles,
and between these medallions cross over and intertwine
forming small round medallions at the point of intersection.
These small medallions are painted red inside, and have
on the outside either gold Rligree not outlined, or a small
gold inscription.
The lower surface of the body—see Detail of III
on plate IIlA—is divided into three Reids by medallions
similar to those on the neck. A circular band Riled
with ornamentation on a blue ground, forms in the middle
of the Reids a medallion, and is itself surrounded by a border.
At the four places in which this border with the medallion
lies, the blue band forms some smaller rounded twists.
The medallion thus produced is Riled with Rligree
ornament, in the middle of which sits a red-white green-
yellow, and blue-white enamelled Rower. The corners
of the Reids are adorned with red-white and blue enamelled
Rowers and leaves of green-yellow.
medallions similar in kind to those on the neck-frieze.
These Reids are divided horizontally by means of an
ornamental hand on a blue ground. On the axis of the
divisions, triangles are placed, formed by a twining band of
blue, and having their basis resting on the periphery. The
Rlling-up of these triangles consists of filigree ornament,
and a little cartouche in the middle containing a Rower
on a blue ground. The angles of the Reids are decorated
with green-yellow and red-white-blue enamelled leaves and
blossoms. The motif of the triangle appears again, in
simpler form, in the three Reids of the foot-frieze, but here
the detail of ornament is converse, the outside angles being
occupied with Rligree decoration, and the triangles with
enamelled leaves and blossoms.
All the enamel is superimposed thickly.
The whole vessel, from its topmost rim to its foot, was
originally gilt, the enamelled places and the ground of the
Rligree ornamentation excepted.
The blue inscription on the neck is a verse from the
III AND IIlA.
GREAT MOSQUE-LAMP.
Thick glass, little transparent.
The round, bellying, body is very broad in the lower
third part of its size, but narrows conically above and
below; with a wide funnel-neck, and resting on a strong
riveted foot. The six handles set on thei upper surface of
the body are particularly strong.
The vessel is somewhat deformed by the Rre.
The decoration is divided into Rve friezes separated
from each other by blank intervals. The broad uppermost
R'ieze is divided by three large medallions into Reids which
are decorated with large blue letters of the round sort.
Small characters of the same kind decorate the cross bars
of the medallions.
The lower neck-frieze, which is narrow, is divided into
six Reids by small encircled medallions, decorated with
lilies, the Reids enclosing Rligree ornament, with Rying
Fia. 43. on lYale II. (One-/b:M'^I 77te .size o/* %Ae oriyinal.)
Fia. 44. De7a77 q/ IIKyi'ce-ontamens on Ude II.
(Oriywd SMO.)
Kur'an Sura 24, verse 35 : " Allah is the light of Heaven
and Earth. His light is like a lantern . ."
The large inscription on the body (Rg. 43) runs thus :
" Glory to our Lord the Sultan an Nasir Nasir ad Dunya-
wa-d-din (Helper of the world and the faith) Hasan son
of Muhammad. Glory to his Victory ! "
Sultan Hasan, son of Sultan Malik Nasir Muhammad,
ruled in Egypt and Syria from 1347 to 1351 and 1354 to
1361 (having been deposed during the interval). His
renowned mosque in Cairo was built in 1356-1359, and
from it the lamp we are describing was probably taken.
It came into the Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum in Vienna
(along with the lamp Rgured on plate III) with the
ethnographic collection of the Emperor Maximilian, R*om
the castle of Miramar in which it had been placed by the
Emperor (then an Austrian Archduke) on his return from
a journey in the East.
The vessel is undamaged ; the enamels are in very
good condition; visible traces remain of the gilding on
the neck.
Height 400 mm.
birds (Rg. 45). The broadest upper-frieze on the body,
in which the handles are placed, has an ornamental division
by means of bands enamelled white. These bands leave
untouched plain pointed medallions round the handles,
and between these medallions cross over and intertwine
forming small round medallions at the point of intersection.
These small medallions are painted red inside, and have
on the outside either gold Rligree not outlined, or a small
gold inscription.
The lower surface of the body—see Detail of III
on plate IIlA—is divided into three Reids by medallions
similar to those on the neck. A circular band Riled
with ornamentation on a blue ground, forms in the middle
of the Reids a medallion, and is itself surrounded by a border.
At the four places in which this border with the medallion
lies, the blue band forms some smaller rounded twists.
The medallion thus produced is Riled with Rligree
ornament, in the middle of which sits a red-white green-
yellow, and blue-white enamelled Rower. The corners
of the Reids are adorned with red-white and blue enamelled
Rowers and leaves of green-yellow.