A LARGE ISLAMIC SILVER AND COPPER INLAID LAMP, SYRIA, DAMASCUS, 19TH CENTURY
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A Syrian Al sarraf silver and copper lamp supported on a large stand.The lamp and the lamp shades decorated with roundels enclosing six pointed star, Seal of Solomon, scrolling foliage and Arabic inscriptions. A large base consisting of different parts, with circular spreading foot and two conical shaped sections decorated with pieced medallions, two copper inlaid roundels containing a silver inlaid six pointed star, Seal of Solomon, Katim Sulymni, further stylized with a band containing cartouches enclosing Arabic inscriptions ‘The king supporter of the religion and the life” and Arabic poems.A middle long cylindrical stem decorated with cartouches on a pieced ground enclosing Arabic inscriptions in thuluth script amongst a dense design of flower scrolls and foliage. The upper part shaped as a vase and a bowl with inscriptions of proverb and hikamhas about honesty and truthfulness. 216 cm. height.CATALOGUE NOTEHikmah or Hikmat, literally 'wisdom is a concept in islamic philosophy and law'.
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A LARGE ISLAMIC SILVER AND COPPER INLAID LAMP, SYRIA, DAMASCUS, 19TH CENTURY
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