The Styles of The Crown contained on The Ranks on some of Glass and Porcelain Antiques preserved in Mohamed Ali Palace Museum in El Manial

Abstract

its known that the Muslim artist is always a lover of rich decorative and artistic creativity in the diversity and the difference of decorative elements between the floral decorations and geometric shapes and inscriptions or drawings of living things, and this is evident throughout the Islamic ages and the artistic heritage is the best witness to this rich decorative, Islamic architecture or applied arts, not only that, but the Muslim artist used decorations with certain symbolic connotations, especially the "decoration of the crown," which is the subject of the research was not only used as an artistic and decorative element, but was one of the most important ranks s of the king, either as an independent decorative element, , And Luga logo Kingdom or personal to one of the ruling Monogram family. The period of Muhammad's family is one of the most important historical Islamic periods. It is a witness to the richness of this period , reflecting the social status, the luxury and the richness enjoyed by this family through an infinite heritage both in Islamic architecture and applied arts, especially tableware and special items. To the members of the royal family with their differences in terms of material, shape, function, or decorative element. In order to emphasize this unique richness and high social status, the decoration of the royal crown was popular, the most important of which was the decoration of the royal crown, whether alone or Kingdom or personal Monogram, not only but varied styles and forms of the same crown and this clearly shows in the light of the applied objects that would be addressed, specifically glass and ceramic objects. and This research aims at studying the styles of crowns mentioned in the ranks on some of the glass and porcelain antiques preserved in the palace museum of Prince Muhammad Ali in Menial. The crown was used as a rank of the king in the civilizations prior to the Islamic civilization. On various architectural or applied works of ceramics, glass, metal, textiles and others.

Keywords

• styles; mohammed ali family; glass; porcelain; badges