Candlestick for Baktūt al-Qaramānī

Pressent location unknown.

Scan from Saracenic Heraldry

Four emblems on the body and three on the neck.

Body inscription:

ممّا عمل برسم المقرّ العالي المولوي الأميري الكبيري المالكي البدري بدر الدين بكتو القرماني الملكي الناصري

This is one of the objects made for His High Excellency, our Lord, the Great Amir, the Royal, Badr al-dīn Baktūt al-Qaramānī, (officer) of al-Malik al-Nāṣir.

Possible dating: before 749/1348

To Baktūt al-Qaramānī’s page


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