A LARGE OTTOMAN SILVER ROSEWATER SPRINKLER (GULABDAN)

OTTOMAN TURKEY OR PROVINCES, SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY

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A LARGE OTTOMAN SILVER ROSEWATER SPRINKLER (GULABDAN)
OTTOMAN TURKEY OR PROVINCES, SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY
The swollen drop-shaped body rising through trumpet foot to neck with pronounced ring and tall slowly tapering spout with floral finial set with small corals, the body worked in repoussé with with vertical bands containing floral scrolls alternated with narrower nielloed bands, a minor band of similar design below, the stepped foot with two bands of leaf motifs, the neck engraved with a stepped pattern of chevrons and small lappets, each element stamped illegible Armenian maker's marks
15in. (38.1cm.) high

Lot Essay

The design of cusped palmettes around the base of this sprinkler is very similar to that found on the base of a chalice in the Sevgi Gönül collection which is dated to the period of 'Abd al-Majid I (r. 1839-61), (Brigitte Pitarakis, A Treasured Memory: Ecclesiastical Silver from late Ottoman Istanbul in the Sevgi Gönül Collection, Istanbul, 2006, no.4, p.25). The sophisticated fluted body and the accuracy of the design suggest however that our sprinkler could be predate the chalice.

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