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Mamluk Philae Dish - Syria or Egypt - 1345-1360 - MET - inventory number 2014.589
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| Title |
Mamluk Philae Dish - Syria or Egypt - 1345-1360 - MET - inventory number 2014.589 |
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| Description |
metalwork |
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| Date | 1345 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Brass; inlaid with silver and gold | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | H. 1.5 in (3.8 cm) x Diam. 11.4 in (29 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current location |
Islamic Art, gallery 454 (Egypt and Syria, 10th–16th centuries) |
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| Accession number |
2014.589 |
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| Place of creation | Egypt or Syria | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Purchase, James and Diane Burke Gift, in honor of Dr. Marilyn Jenkins-Madina, 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Translation: May you my owner live in continuous wellbeing/leisure, Free of any worry, May you spend all your days in prosperity, With blessings, pleasures and bounty Enjoying happiness that has no end, In complete felicity, glory and good fortune Drink and thank the... |
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| Notes | This kind of shallow dish with a narrow rim and a flattened omphalos (boss) at center is known as a philae. This dish compares closely with two others inscribed with the honorific titles of mid-fourteenth-century Mamluk sultans: one in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., made for a Mamluk officer of Sultan Hasan (r. 1347–51, 1354–61), and another in the Keir collection that was made for Sultan Salih (r. 1351–54). On all three examples the brass is inlaid with precious silver and gold, suggesting that this dish, like those, was intended for a member of the Mamluk ruling elite. The Arabic verses inscribed around the cavetto (concave portion of the dish) encourage the dish's owner to drink, but whether wine or water is unclear (from :http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/655036) . | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| References | "London, June 11, 1973." In Antiquities, Islamic Pottery and Metalwork. London: Sotheby's, London, 1973. no. 107.; Allan, James. Metalwork of the Islamic World: the Aron Collection. London, 1986. no. 12, pp. 43-44, 92-93 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/655036 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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