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Lot Essay
This gilt-copper sherbet container was very likely intended for domestic use in a wealthy household or in the more private part of a palace. Our samovar shares the same decoration, an overall repousse lozenge lattice, the centres of each lozenge with a vertical or horizontal indented line, with a tombak ewer and basin in the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul (The Anatolian Civilisations, 1983, no.E.344, pp.304-05; also Topkapi à Versailles, no.103, p.151). The tombak ewer and basin bear a waqf inscription stating they were endowed to the mausoleum of Perevniyal Valide Sultan in AH 1286/1869-70 AD. A silver ewer with a closely related lozenge lattice bears the tughra of Sultan Selim III and thus dates from 1789-1808 (Four Centuries of Ottoman Taste, no.27).
Two pyriform shaped tombak sherbet containers kept at the Topkapi Palace Museum and dated to the 18th century share the same repousse lattice as ours (Ulker, 2010, pp.208-209) The first, of squat form, shows the same indentation on each diamond. The second, of the same shape, is fitted with similar curving handles with bird finials, tap and domed lid, the finial with oversized flowers.
Two pyriform shaped tombak sherbet containers kept at the Topkapi Palace Museum and dated to the 18th century share the same repousse lattice as ours (Ulker, 2010, pp.208-209) The first, of squat form, shows the same indentation on each diamond. The second, of the same shape, is fitted with similar curving handles with bird finials, tap and domed lid, the finial with oversized flowers.