TURKEY, 18TH CENTURY

This ewer is slightly more elongated and with a slightly more attenuated boss in the neck than frequently found in tombak examples of the form. The shape does however relate to that found on the ewers that decorate the 15th century Mamluk tiles on the Mosque and tomb of Tawrizi in Damascus (John Carswell, 'Six Tiles', Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1972, fig.2b, p.101).