An exceptional Mamluk Revival mosque lamp by Philippe-Joseph Brocard, Paris, 1880-90

blown of yellow-green glass, of characteristic form with six loop handles around the body, decorated in blue, red, green, and white enamels with gilt, the neck decorated with roundels containing scrolling palmettes and interspersed with calligraphic cartouches, the body with swirling and intertwining grapevines and birds amongst foliate scrolls, the roundels on the neck repeated to base, signed 'Brocard, Paris' near one of handles

In good condition, two handles with minor break on glass overlay drizzle, as viewed.
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inscriptions

bism allah al-rahman al-rahim/ al-fattah al-razzaq / al-'alim al-'aziz a

'In the name of God, The Compassionate, The Merciful.  The Opener [of all doors], The Sustainer, The All-Knowing, The Almighty'

Philippe-Joseph Brocard, a nineteenth-century glass maker, was greatly inspired by thirteenth/fourteenth-century enamelled glass mosque lamps from Mamluk Egypt and Syria which he saw on display at the Musée de Cluny in Paris. He mastered early Mamluk techniques such as using firm, colourful enamels to decorate his glass models and exhibited some of his pieces at the Exposition Universelle of 1867 in Paris.  

Now, a number of Brocard's own creations are housed in museums and collections around the world, including the British Museum (inv. no. M&ME 1902,11-18,1), the Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. no. 71-1890), and the Corning Museum of Glass (inv. no. 78.3.16). A comparable mosque lamp signed by Philippe-Joseph Brocard was sold in these rooms on 30 April 2003, lot 124.