A chandelier
Unique ID： A015
- Attribution
- Sultan al-Nāṣir Muḥammad b. Qalāwūn
- Place
- Egypt
- Period
- Mamluk period, the 14th century
- Material
- A copper inlaid with silver.
- Owner
- Museum of Islamic Art (Egypt)
- Collection No.
- 4090
- Description
- It's one of lighting methods in that time it's smaller than the lantern, both of them used for lighting the wide spaces and the mosque lamp used after that for lighting fewer wide spaces. It contains two pieces, the first one for Sultan Qalāwūn and the other one for Sultan al-Ashraf Sha‘bān maybe they were gathered for Sufi cell beside Zāwiya door in front of al-Muayyad Shaykh mosque outside the Fatimid wall which was established in (925A.H /1519 A.D).
- Copyright
- © Museum of Islamic Art
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