Date: 1868
Materials and technics: Blown glass, enamelled and gilded
Dimensions : H. 36 ; D. 22 cm
Inscriptions : Signed and dated: "Brocard à Paris 1868. 19 juin"
Inventory number: ODUT1949
Acquisition details: Pre-emptive purchase with back interest on the Dutuit bequest at public sale on 30 May 2011
Room: not on display
Date: 1868
Materials and technics: Blown glass, enamelled and gilded
Dimensions : H. 36 ; D. 22 cm
Inscriptions : Signed and dated: "Brocard à Paris 1868. 19 juin"
Inventory number: ODUT1949
Acquisition details: Pre-emptive purchase with back interest on the Dutuit bequest at public sale on 30 May 2011
Room: not on display
Mosque lamps were luxury objects, designed to be hung in mosques and mausoleums in Egypt or Mamluk Syria.
Produced from the 12th to the 14th century, they very quickly became items of collection by rich European art lovers such as Auguste and Eugène Dutuit, who bequeathed a mosque lamp with an epigraphic design to the Petit Palais in 1902.
Brocard very much liked Syrian and Egyptian pieces, which he had admired at the Musée de Cluny and in the collections of the Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs, and in 1867 he succeeded in decorating his glassware with hard enamels in full colour. The virtuosity with which he mastered this difficult technique was admired by Emile Gallé.
D. M.
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