Baybars, Bundukdar

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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PS: A note to Mr. Alami;

It may be the Fatimid period, but it's a Mamluk, i.e. Kipchak-Turk Art. Even the "cup" (the Kipchak Tamga-sign) on it says "I'm Turk", along with "Art of the Steppes."

Example: Mamluk Armor with the "cup" tamga, 1428/43