AN ARMENIAN ENAMELLED SILVER BOWL
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AN ARMENIAN ENAMELLED SILVER BOWL

OTTOMAN TURKEY, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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AN ARMENIAN ENAMELLED SILVER BOWL
OTTOMAN TURKEY, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
With central omphalos and slightly everted rim
5 1/8in. (13.2cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

A bowl with very similar design but without the polychrome enamels of ours is in the Sadberk Hanim Museum, attributed to the early 18th century (inv.no.15699-M.1253; Brigitte Pitarakis and Christos Merantzas, A Treasured Memory. Ecclesiastical Silver from the Late Ottoman Istanbul in the Sevgi Gönül Collection, Istanbul, 2006, no.62, pp.62-63). So close are the two that they must have been produced in the same workshop. In the catalogue the authors write that the bowl represents a rich combination of artistic elements deriving from Islamic, Byzantine and Western baroque traditions and that it was probably produced in a multicultural artistic centre (op.cit., p.153).

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