Antique Blue Glass Islamic Mamluk Calligraphy Basin Bowl Lobmeyr or Brocard 1880 Paintings becoming good friends with trading

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The base and top are in good condition

at the National Museum of Art in Osaka

The painting depicts three masted fishing boats with surf crashing on the shore and set against a blue sky yet cloudy sky

Antique Blue Glass Islamic Mamluk Calligraphy Basin Bowl Lobmeyr or Brocard 1880 Paintings becoming good friends with tradingSOLD A good antique Islamic Mamluk Revival glass basin, made for the Arab Persian market, circa 1880. The bowl either made in France or Austria in the style of either Philippe Joseph Brocard or by J. L. Lobmeyr & Co. The pale blue basin is finely & beautifully hand decorated with enameled polychrome decoration, having Kufic inscriptions in cartouches featured along the top and bottom, and decorated with stylized flowers and octagonal medallions along