Conserved at the State Hermitage Museum, Saint-Petersburg. Continue reading Box with epigraphic emblem (Hermitage)
Tag Archives: Sultan
Glass lamp for sultan Barqūq (Lyon)
Conserved at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon. Continue reading Glass lamp for sultan Barqūq (Lyon)
Tray for sultan Sha’bān II (Lyon)
Conserved at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon.
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Sha’bān II (764/1363-778/1377)
Wood panel (Edinburgh)
Conserved at the Royal Museum, Edinburgh. Continue reading Wood panel (Edinburgh)
Perfume burner (Doha)
Conserved at the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha. Continue reading Perfume burner (Doha)
Axe of sultan Qāytbāy’s guard
Conserved at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Continue reading Axe of sultan Qāytbāy’s guard
Glass lamp for sultan Ḥasan
Conserved at the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon. Continue reading Glass lamp for sultan Ḥasan
Ḥasan (748/1347-752/1351 and 755/1354-762/1361)
Here is a list of objects and monuments displaying the emblem of sultan Ḥasan.
- A glass lamp at the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon
- A glass lamp at the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington
- A glass lamp at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London
- A second glass lamp at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London
- A tray-stand at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London
- A perfume sprinkler at the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo
- A table at the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo
- The madrasa al-Nāṣiriyya in Tripoli (Lebanon)
- A madrasa in Cairo
Kitbughā (694/1294-696/1296)
Emblem descriptions : Cup on a unique field OR Cup on the lower part of a two-field emblem OR Blank upper field (white or colorless?), blank red central field, blank lower field with a red cup.
Known emblems:
- A candlestick base at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore
- A copper coin at the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem
- An illustration in a manuscript of al-Dhahabī’s al-Muntaqā min ta’rīkh al-islām conserved in the 1930’s at the library of Ahmed Zeki Pasha in Cairo (according to Mayer).
Bibliography: Mayer, Saracenic Heraldry, p. 143-144
Candlestick base for sultan Kitbughā
Conserved at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Continue reading Candlestick base for sultan Kitbughā
Glass lamp for sultan Barqūq
Conserved at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Continue reading Glass lamp for sultan Barqūq
Barqūq (784/1382-801/1399)
Here is a list of objects and monuments displaying the emblem of sultan Barqūq.
- A glass lamp at the Metropolitan Museum in New York
- A glass lamp at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon
- A glass lamp at the Musée du Louvre in Paris
- A glass lamp at the Museum für Islamische Kunst in Berlin
- A glass lamp at the Khalili Collections in London
- A glass lamp at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London
- A second glass lamp at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London
- A third glass lamp at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London
- A madrasa in Cairo
- On the caravanserai of emir Yūnus al-Dawādār in Gaza
It seems that 59 glass lamps made for sultan Barqūq survive: 25 are in the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo, 22 are in the mosque of Imam Husain (also in Cairo) and 12 are dispersed in museum collections outside Egypt. (Information published by Alaa El-Din Mahmoud in 2016 on the basis of a master’s thesis by Mayisa Mahmud Dawud, Cairo University, 1971)
Qāytbāy (872/1468-901/1496)
Here is a list of objects and monuments displaying the emblem of sultan Qāytbāy.
- A basin at the Metropolitan Museum in New York
- A basin at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London
- An axe of his guard at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
- A wood panel at the Royal Museum in Edinburgh
- A wood panel at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto
- A wood panel at the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo
- A wood ceiling at the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo
- A ceramic panel at the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo
- A brass lamp at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London
- A brass lamp at the Museum für Islamische Kunst in Berlin
- A candlestick at the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo
- A complex in Cairo
- A rab’ (a residential apartment block) in Cairo
- A caravanserai in Cairo
- A first public fountain in Cairo
- A second public fountain in Cairo
- A caravanserai with a public fountain in Cairo
- On the mosque of Uzbak al-Yūsufī in Cairo
- On the Citadel in Gaziantep
- Bāb al-Maqām in Aleppo
- Bāb al-Faraj in Aleppo
Basin for sultan Qāytbāy (Met)
Conserved at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Continue reading Basin for sultan Qāytbāy (Met)