An intact gilded and enamelled glass mosque lamp, Egypt, late 19th century, on a short, rounded foot, with high flaring conical mouth, eight applied loop handles around the body, the body with a band of gilded thuluth calligraphy on a cobalt blue ground, the neck with the body with a band of blue thuluth calligraphy with three roundels featuring red pseudo-inscriptions, the underside with a series of roundels featuring animals and pseudo-inscriptions with red, green, blue and white enamelled flowers, 24.5cm. high Inscriptions: Around the shoulder 'izz li-mawlana Hasan bin Muhammad 'azza nasrahu (repeated). Hasan bin Muhammad was Sultan al-Nasir Badr al-Din Hasan bin Muhammad bin Qalawun 9r. 1334-61AD); around the neck loosely copying Qur'an 24 (sura al-nur), v. 35Provenance: Property of a Lady acquired Aguttes, Lyon, Ancient Paintings, Furniture, Works of Art, Amateur's Collection, October 25, 2012, Lot 281. Note: For a discussion on the reproduction of Islamic gilt and enamelled glass and especially mosque lamps from the later 19th and 20th century especially by glasshouses in Paris and Vienna cf. S. Carboni and D.B. Whitehouse, Glass of the Sultans, New York 2001, pp. 297-309, nos 152-5. Unfortunately this example is unsigned.Losses to gilt decoration, losses to enamel, remains of sticky substance to interior base, possibly wax