Candlestick
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Candlesticks in the shape of a truncated cone surmounted by a cylindrical shaft and a socket to accomodate a candle often flanked the mihrab in religious buildings. The same type was also used as house furnishing. The elegant inscription around the body is dedicated to a unnamed
Mamluk sultan.
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