IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 28044 accession number: C.4-1949 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Clear bubbly glass with a brownish tinge, free blown, with applied lugs, enamelled in blue, red, white and black. Depressed globular body with six clear lugs for suspension on the sloping shoulder, flaring neck, and low circular foot. Decorated on the upper part of the neck in nashki script with a passage from the Qur'an, Sura XXIV, 35, the Sura of Light, broken by three circular medallions containing a red cup. Around the lower part of the neck is a band of red scrolling foliage brokenby upright plant motifs. The shoulders are decorated in larger script reserved in foliage outlined in red in a blue ground: 'By the order of the most noble authority, the Exhalted, the Lordly, the Masterful, holder of the sword, Shaykhu al-Nasiri'. The lower part of the body is decorated with three medallions containing cups alternating with three medallions containing blue foliage. The spaces between are occupied by flowers. title: mosque lamp NOTES ----- type: history note value: Linant Pasha; purchased from him by Rostowitz Bey, Cairo, by whom given to John M. Cook; inherited by his son, Frank H. Cook; inherited by his wife, Mrs Frank H. Cook LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the National Art Collections Fund to commemorate the Centenary of the opening of the Fitzwilliam. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/28044 PEOPLE ------------------- Linant Pasha Rostowitz Bey CATEGORIES ------ category: glass DATING ------ creation date: 1355 - 1355 creation date earliest: 1355 creation date latest: 1355 culture: 14th Century, Mid# culture: Mamluk CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 35.3 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Art of Islam title: Glass at the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Annual Report for the Year ending 31 December 1949 National Art-Collections Fund Annual Report 1949 The Fitzwilliam Museum. An Illustrated Survey Glass at the Fitzwilliam Museum Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum How to buy a Stubbs on £2,600 a Year, The Fitzwilliam and the N.A.C.F. The National Art Collections Fund at the Fitzwilliam Museum, An Exhibition to celebrate The Fund's 85th Anniversary The Fitzwilliam Museum 1848-1998, One Hundred and Fifty Years of Collecting Bulletin de l'Institute Egyptian Old Oriental Glass Vessels Mittelälterliche Gläser aus dem Nahen Osten National Museets Arbejdsmark 1960 Eredita dell'Islam, Arte Islamica in Italia The Collection of the Late Baroness Batsheva de Rothschild, 14th December 2000 Works of Art from the Bute Collection, 3rd July 1996 Glass of the Sultans The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Glass and Limoges Painted Enamels --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_4_1949.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 607 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_C_4_1949.jpg height: 626 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_4_1949.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 607 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_C_4_1949.jpg height: 313 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/323/329/large_C_4_1949_201301_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1250 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/323/329/mid_C_4_1949_201301_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 611 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.4-1949_201301_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/323/329/preview_C_4_1949_201301_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 305 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/323/329/C_4_1949_201301_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 10017 pixels width: 8203 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/625/493/large_C_4_1949_201301_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 1189 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/625/493/mid_C_4_1949_201301_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 581 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/625/493/C_4_1949_201301_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 9369 pixels width: 8067 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/625/493/preview_C_4_1949_201301_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 290 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/625/493/C_4_1949_201301_mfj22_dc1.ptif height: 9369 pixels width: 8067 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/1/45/275/large_C_4_1949_201301_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1250 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/1/45/275/mid_C_4_1949_201301_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 611 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.4-1949_201301_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/1/45/275/preview_C_4_1949_201301_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 305 pixels width: 250 pixels