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LNS 804 M

Bronze oil lamp with domical lid featuring an openwork plait design, a leaf-shaped spout, and a Kufic inscription wishing ‘Blessing and happiness’ to its owner

LNS 110 M

Brass basin inlaid with silver featuring thuluth inscriptions lauding an (unnamed) officer of al-Malik an-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qala’un (r. 693-741 AH/1293-1341 AD, with interruptions), ogives and roundels with flying ducks, and vegetal motifs; later owner’s inscription, one ‘Abd Allah ibn Ahmad)

LNS 82 M

Bronze candlestick inlaid with copper and silver, with salient rows of ducks and seated lions, and invocations of good wishes to the owner in Kufic script

LNS 104 M

Combined silver folding spoon and fork inlaid with niello, with pious inscriptions in Kufic invoking God, and with vegetal arabesques and representations of simurghs and birds

LNS 1136 M a

Bronze dish in the form of a fish (for the serving of fish?), decorated with winged lions, hares, seven-circle rosettes, flutes and a vegetal arabesque

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