Mosque Lamp for Emir Qawsum al-Saqi, 1329-1334

The lamp was probably intended either for the mosque or the tomb-hospice complex that the Sultan had built in Cairo.
From Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. 17.190.991

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