A SILVER ROSEWATER SPRINKLER

ARMENIAN OR OTTOMAN ANATOLIA, 18TH CENTURY

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A SILVER ROSEWATER SPRINKLER
ARMENIAN OR OTTOMAN ANATOLIA, 18TH CENTURY
With rounded body on spreading foot rising through the conical shoulder to a small boss below the very slightly tapering tubular tall neck with pierced rounded mouth, the body worked in light repouss with a band of oval panels containing floral sprays, lobed panels above and below, the shoulder with a band of swirling arabesques, the neck with similar bands of swirling arabesques, underside of foot holed
13in. (33cm.) high
343gr.

Provenance

Frederick Stanhope Peck, Belton Court, Barrington, Rhode Island, sold Samuel T. Freeman & Co., Boston, 1947, lot 209 ("Two Indian Ceremonial Water Bottles")

Lot Essay

While neither this bottle nor those in lots 380 and 383 are marked, the style is clearly that of the 18th Century. The shape can also be found in silver marked with the tughra of Ahmed III (1703-1730) (Krkman, Garo: Ottoman Silver Marks, Istanbul, 1996, p.156) as well, of course, as being found freqently in Kutahya pottery of the same period, such as lots 402 and 403 in this sale.

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