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Miscellaneous : Enamelled and gilded “Persian style” glass mosque lamp
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Enamelled and gilded “Persian style” glass mosque lamp - CB.2916
Origin: Paris, France
Circa: 19
th
Century AD
Dimensions:
16.14" (41.0cm) high
Medium: Glass
Location: Great Britain
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| Description |
During late 19th-century Europe,
there was a great wave of interest in
Islamic or Moorish art, which
influenced many aspects of the
applied arts and interior decoration.
Collecting, studying, and copying
Islamic art from earlier centuries
became also became quite popular.
The continuous great demand for
glass artefacts was supplied by the
Liege-born Philippe-Joseph Brocard
(1831–1896).
This Belgian independent
glassmaker, inspired by enameled
glass items from the Mamluk period,
began to collect them and then to
copy them and was especially gifted
at creating successful facsimiles of
Islamic enameled glass. Although a
craftsman who began his career as a
restorer of antiques, around the
1850s Brocard began to study the
Islamic tradition of glass-making and
to experiment with Islamic
decorative techniques, such as
staining and enameling.
It was while studying the enamelling
of glass that all his efforts focused
on the ambition to reproduce
medieval Syrian glass. He finally
managed to craft a 14th- and 15th-
century Syrian glass reproduction
which he first exhibited at the 1867
Exposition Universelle in Paris.
Brocard's glass production is purely
decorative and mostly notable for its
lyrical but precise polychrome
enamel decoration, been nowadays
displayed as a major example of
19th century historicism.
- (CB.2916)
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