Blown and tooled, with fired enamels and gold, height 19 cm
Egypt or Syria, late 13th - early 14th century AD
Enamelled glass stand featuring a #Mamluk princely blazon of courtly office (bow and two arrows, for a "bunduqdar", or Keeper of the Bow), with Chinese-style lotuses and phoenixes and bands with processions of real and mythical quadrupeds.
The Al-Sabah Collection
* Bunduqdar - Bundukdar was used by the Mamluk - #Kipchak #Turks as a title.
- Baybars I (1223-1277), full name; el-Melikü’z-Zâhir Rüknüddîn es-Sâlihî el-Bundukdârî, was the kağan (kaghan) of the Mamluk Turkish State, which was called as "Dawlat al-Turk (State of Turk)" or as "Dawlat al-Turkiyya (Turkish State)", who ruled (1260-77) in Egypt and Syria. So, the two arrows means = Keeper of Two Lands. And Turkish male name Baybars means "bay -rich person, noble, sir" , "pars/bars - leopard, panther".
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