Dinner table
Unique ID： A006
- Attribution
- Sultan al-Nāṣir Muḥammad b. Qalāwūn
- Place
- Egypt
- Period
- Mamluk period, the 14th century
- Material
- Copper inlaid with gold and silver
- Owner
- Museum of Islamic Art (Egypt)
- Collection No.
- 139
- Description
- Hexagonal table, decorated with floral decorations, geometrical designs, figure subjects and Quranic verses with prayers phrases with double arched door of floral decorations and six pillars attached to the table legs with inscriptions of " Muḥammad b. Sunqur al-Baghdādī al-Sanqarī " which refer to the name of the artisan curved on it and its date of 728 A.H. Some inscriptions refer to sultan Qalāwūn. These kinds of tables are commonly known as dinner tables for Islamic art specialists. Maybe used as a table for Quranic books in several mosques or for candlesticks which are used for lighting at night on the two sides of the prayer niche or for cosmetics.
- Copyright
- (日本語) © Museum of Islamic Art
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