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Spherical component of a mosque lamp

Iznik workshop1530/1550

Benaki Museum of Islamic Art

Benaki Museum of Islamic Art
Athens, Greece

A ceramic spherical component of a mosque lamp decorated with rosettes, cloud scrolls and arabesques. Stylistically, it is related to an inscribed mosque lamp, in the British Museum, that bears the signature of the artist Musli al-Din and the date 1549. It is quite possible that both items are works of the same artist, created on the occasion of the restoration of the Dome of the Rock at Jerusalem by Süleyman the Magnificent. From Turkey, mid 16th c. H 23 cm (ΓΕ_9)

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