A TINNED COPPER WATER FLASK (MATARA)
A TINNED COPPER WATER FLASK (MATARA)
A TINNED COPPER WATER FLASK (MATARA)
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A TINNED COPPER WATER FLASK (MATARA)
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A TINNED COPPER WATER FLASK (MATARA)

OTTOMAN TURKEY, EARLY 17TH CENTURY

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A TINNED COPPER WATER FLASK (MATARA)
OTTOMAN TURKEY, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
The rounded body tapering to two short spouts, loop fitting between, the body decorated with punched and engraved floral decoration
9in. (22.9cm.) high
來源
UK private collection by 1998, from which acquired by the current owner

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Sara Plumbly
Sara Plumbly Director, Head of Department

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The form of this matara follows a leather prototype, which Ottoman artisans developed and elevated to luxury objects by reproducing in other, more costly materials such as rock crystal or Iznik pottery (see Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby, Iznik. The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey, London, 1989, nos.633 and 634 and Esin Atil, The Age of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent, exhibition catalogue, Washington D.C., 1987, p.129, no.60). A tombak version dated to the 17th century, is in the Furusiyya Collection (Bashir Mohamed, The Arts of the Muslim Knight, Milan, 2007, p.282, no.274). Like ours, that matara has overall lightly pounced surface decoration of floral designs centred in and around an ogival motif on each side.

Various other forms of matara are known. A rare tombak example sold in these Rooms 2 May 2019, lot 159. Another tombak matara of the same form in the British Museum is published in Yanni Petsopoulos (ed.), Tulips, Arabesques & Turbans, London, 1982, p.35, no.13C (inv.97-3-20 1). The surface of the British Museum matara is again very similarly decorated to ours.

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