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A SILVER-INLAID OPENWORK MAMLUK-REVIVAL BRASS INCENSE BURNER Cairo, Egypt, first half 20th century The removable, pierced lid reminiscent in shape of an architectural Islamic dome with a pointy finial at the top, surmounting a short cylindrical base resting on three stylised booted feet, the exterior inlaid in silver sheet and wire in traditional Mamluk revival style, with calligraphic medallions referring to an unnamed sultan and his other honorific titles interspersed amidst cusped arabesque cartouches in-filled with intertwined split palmette sprays, encased within knotted fretwork bands with stylised pen case blazons once used for the Secretary of State, 17.8cm high.
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A SILVER-INLAID OPENWORK MAMLUK-REVIVAL BRASS INCENSE BURNER Cairo, Egypt, first half 20th century The removable, pierced lid reminiscent in shape of an architectural Islamic dome with a pointy finial at the top, surmounting a short cylindrical base resting on three stylised booted feet, the exterior inlaid in silver sheet and wire in traditional Mamluk revival style, with calligraphic medallions referring to an unnamed sultan and his other honorific titles interspersed amidst cusped arabesque cartouches in-filled with intertwined split palmette sprays, encased within knotted fretwork bands with stylised pen case blazons once used for the Secretary of State, 17.8cm high.
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