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AN OTTOMAN GILT COPPER (TOMBAK) BOTTLE
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AN OTTOMAN GILT COPPER (TOMBAK) BOTTLE

OTTOMAN TURKEY, FIRST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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AN OTTOMAN GILT COPPER (TOMBAK) BOTTLE
OTTOMAN TURKEY, FIRST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Rising from the rounded body to the tubular neck, on short spreading foot, the body very finely engraved with meandering flowering vine around cypress trees dividing vacant roundels, fine arabesque interlace above and below, a band of stylised cypress trees around the shoulder, the neck trailed with a thin spiral floral tendril, mouth with internal screw-thread, base replaced with very slight loss, gilding rubbed in places
7in. (17.7cm.) high
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Lot Essay

A tombak sprinkler of very similar form in the Topkapi Palace shares many decorative features with the present example (Topkapi à Versailles, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1999, no.109, pp.154-5). The dating is assisted by comparing the decoration to that on a silver ewer also in the Topkapi which is stamped with the tughra of Sultan Ahmed III and can thus be dated to the first quarter of the 18th century. The Topkapi sprinkler also demonstrates that the screw thread fitting inside the mouth was for a very small domed cover.

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