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PAIR OF MOSQUE LAMPS
By Philippe-Joseph Brocard
Enamelled and gilded glass
6 in (15 cm) - high French (Paris), 1879
PROVENANCE: [...]; Tajan, 18 November 1997, lot 296; H. Blairman & Sons; private collection. Brocard, who started his career as a restorer and collector, became fascinated by Mamluk glass mosque lamps in the Musée de Cluny, Paris. By at least 1867 he had begun to make enamelled glass, closely based on fourteenth-century prototypes. He first exhibited such work at the Paris Exposition Universelle, 1867 (see Judy Rudoe, Decorative Arts 1850-1950: A catalogue of the British Museum Collection (London, 1991, 1994 edn), pp. 22-23). Brocard also showed mosque lamps, vases and other vessels at later international exhibitions: London (1871), Vienna (1873) and Paris (1878).
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