A PAIR OF SILVER-INLAID MAMLUK-REVIVAL DAMASCUS-WARE VASES
Ottoman Syria, late 19th century

Each of bulbous shape, resting on a circular splayed foot, rising to a tall everted neck with wide circular mouth, the decoration inspired by earlier Mamluk models, with cusped cartouches filled with silver-inlaid vegetal meanders intertwined with split palmette trellis and floral sprays, in the centre four large lobed medallions, two with vegetal motifs and two with thuluth calligraphy running around a central rosette roundel, the tallest 46.5cm high.