Lot 118
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AN OTTOMAN PARCEL GILT AND NIELLO SILVER PENCASE (DAVAT)
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AN OTTOMAN PARCEL GILT AND NIELLO SILVER PENCASE (DAVAT)

TURKEY, PERIOD OF AHMED III (1673 - 1736 AD)

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AN OTTOMAN PARCEL GILT AND NIELLO SILVER PENCASE (DAVAT)
TURKEY, PERIOD OF AHMED III (1673 - 1736 AD)
Of typical form, the pencase of three individual tubular sections with engraved and damascened floral decoration and intricate finials on either side, those on one end forming caps attached to the main body with silver chains, the sections joined by panels of openwork in the form of flowerheads alternated with delicate scrolls, the stout, faceted inkpot with raised and slightly everted rims, each side of the main body with floral decoration in cusped medallions between minor floral boarders, above a small floral medallion with inset ruby surrouded by enamelled foliage, with two tughras of Ahmed III, some loss of enamel and areas of wear
9 5/8in. (24.5cm.) long
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Lot Essay

A very similar pencase, also with the tughra of Sultan Ahmet III, which can be dated to 1706, is in the treasury of the Kremlin in Moscow, together with a slightly smaller very similar example with two pen-tubes with the same tughra and dated to 1707 (Treasures of 16th-18th Cent. Persian and Turkish Applied Art from the Collection of the State Musuems in the Moscow Kremlin, Catalogue, Moscow, 1979, nos.210 and 211). A further example is in Copenhagen (Kjeld von Folsach, Art from the World of Islam in the David Collection, Copenhagen, 2001, no.534, p.331).

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