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Studies in Islamic Metal Work—III1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

D. S. Rice
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The Türk ve Islam Müzesi in Istanbul possesses a hitherto unpublished ewer (Inv. No. 217) signed by a Mawṣilī artist (Pl. I). This is an unpretentious vessel, made of beaten brass and sparingly decorated with inlaid designs. It stands 37 cm. high without the lid (which is a later addition) and measures 20 cm. in its widest diameter.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , June 1953 , pp. 229 - 238
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1953

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page 229 note 2 I am indebted to Bay Elif Naci, Director of the Türk ve Islam Müzesi for the facilities granted to me and for permission to publish this ewer.

page 230 note 1 The name of the artist was wrongly rendered by E. Kühnel (‘Zwei Mosulbronzen und ihr Meister’, in Jahrb. der preuss. Kunstsamml, lx, 1939, p. 10Google Scholar) as 'Abdulkarīm ibn ar-Rā'ī and the year 627 as 1231 instead of 1229.

page 230 note 2 For the meaning of ulām cf. BSOAS, xv, 1953, p. 67.Google Scholar

page 230 note 3 Sam'ānī, , kitāb al-ansāb, ed. Margoliouth, D. S., London, 1912, p. 104b.Google Scholar

page 230 note 4 Cf. the bibliography given in RCEA, ix, No. 3478.Google Scholar

page 230 note 5 Wrongly described in Barrett, D., Islamic Metalwork in the British Museum, London, 1949, p. xxii, and pls. 16–17Google Scholar (also in RCEA, xi, No. 4202)Google Scholar as an astronomical table.

page 230 note 6 Cf. for a bibliography RCEA, xii, No. 4708.Google Scholar

page 231 note 1 Cf. BSOAS, xv, 1953, pp. 69–79, pls. XII–XXII.Google Scholar

page 231 note 2 Unpublished except for details in Rice, D. S., ‘The Oldest Dated “Mosul” Candlestick’, in The Burlington Magazine, 12, 1949, figs. 5–6, facing p. 337.Google Scholar

page 231 note 3 Cf. RCEA, x, No. 3960Google Scholar, and additional bibliographical references in BSOAS, xv, 1953, p. 66, note 3.Google Scholar

page 231 note 4 Cf. BSOAS, loc. cit., pp. 66–9, pls. X–XI.Google Scholar

page 231 note 5 Cf. RCEA, xi, No. 4046Google Scholar, also Barrett, D., op. cit., pls. 12–13.Google Scholar

page 231 note 6 Cf. Walters Gallery of Art, Handbook of the Collection, Baltimore, 1936, fig. on p. 49Google Scholar. Also Exhibition of Iranian Art held at the Iranian Institute, New York, in 1940, Catalogue, pp. 43–44Google Scholar. Cf. also RCEA, xi, No. 4267.Google Scholar

page 231 note 7 Cf. RCEA, xi, No. 4439.Google Scholar

page 231 note 8 Ibid., xi, No. 4697.

page 231 note 9 Ibid., xi, No. 4705.

page 231 note 10 Ibid., xi, No. 4363, and the detailed monograph by Kühnel, E., Zwei Mosulbronzen, loc. cit.Google Scholar

page 232 note 1 I am indebted to Dr. Mario Zuffa, Secretary of the Museo Civico in Bologna, for the facilities granted to me and for permission to publish this exhibit.

page 232 note 2 Cf. Lane, A., Early Islamic Pottery, London, 1947, pl. 92BGoogle Scholar. Also a bowl dated 607/1210 in the S. Ṭillinger collection, reproduced in Bahrami, M., Gurgan Faiences, Cairo, 1949, pl. LXIGoogle Scholar. I am indebted to Sir Alan Barlow for permission to publish the bowl on pl. V, and to the Victoria and Albert Museum for the loan of the photograph.

page 233 note 1 Pope, A. U. (ed.) A Survey of Persian Art, London, 1939, vi, pls. 1322, 1325–6.Google Scholar

page 233 note 2 Cf. Bahrami, M., op. cit., pl. LXVIGoogle Scholar, a ewer in the Raymond Ades collection.

page 233 note 3 Cf. G[allois], H. C., ‘Een handwaschbekken van geëmailleerd glas uit de 14e eeuw’, in Mededeelingen van den Dienst voor Kunsten en Wetenschappen der Gemeente 's Gravenhage, iii, 1933, pp. 1–5.Google Scholar

page 233 note 4 Both these shapes of ewers and basins were also copied in Chinese ceramics, and it has been suggested that the Chinese potters were influenced directly by Near Eastern metal work. Cf. Gray, B., ‘The Influence of Near Eastern Metalwork on Chinese Ceramics’, in Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, XVII, 1941, pp. 47–60.Google Scholar

page 234 note 1 Lanci, M. A., Trattato delle simboliche rappresentanze arabiche, Paris, 1846, ii, pp. 124–5Google Scholar, Atlante, pls. XI–XLI.Google Scholar

page 234 note 2 Cf. Wiet, G., Objets en cuivre, Cairo, 1932, p. 179, No. 72Google Scholar, and RCEA, xii, No. 4459.Google Scholar

page 234 note 3 Cf. RCEA, vol. xii, No. 4690.Google Scholar

page 235 note 1 There are no hexagons, interlaced kūfī inscriptions, or interlinked-swastika patterns (so called T patterns) on either piece.

page 235 note 2 This tray was previously in the Munich Library. Cf. Sarre, F. and Martin, F. R. (ed.), Meisterwerke Muhammedanischer Kunst, Munich, 1912, ii, pl. 145Google Scholar, and also Sarre, Fr., ‘Ein Metallbecken des Atābeks Lu'lu' von Mosul’, in Münchner Jahrb. der bild. Kunst, i, 1907, pp. 18–37.Google Scholar

page 235 note 3 Гюзалян, надпись с именем бадр ад-дйна лл на бронзовом подсвечнике государственного эрмитажа in Epigrafika, Vostoka, ii, Moscow, 1948, fig. 1, facing p. 76.Google Scholar

page 238 note 1 Cf. Maryon, H., ‘Metal Working in the Ancient World’, in American Journal of Archaeology, LIII, 1949, esp. pp. 115 ff.Google Scholar

page 238 note 2 Note the alif of al-māliki (Pl. VII left) where the hatched background has encroached on the hasta of the letter.

page 238 note 3 Note e.g. the inner edge of the letter lām in as-salāṭīn (Pl. VII right) which has become visible owing to the loss of the inlay.