A Gilt-Copper (Tombak) Coffee Pot, Turkey, 18th century

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 GBP

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Description

of slender baluster form with a curved spout and hinged domed cover with knop-form finial, the handle of double-scroll form with a bifurcated thumbpiece, the repoussé and punched decoration composed of a register of broad fluting around the base and a scrolling floral garland around the cover

Exhibited

Couleurs d'Orient, Brussels, 2010

Literature

Brussels 2010, p.87

Catalogue Note

This tombak coffee pot relates in form and decoration to a piece in the collection of Nasser D. Khalili (Geneva 1995, pp.179-80, no.120). This was later inscribed underneath with the name of Princess Fatma Sultan, referring either to a daughter of Ahmed III or Mustafa III. The inscription associates this sort of object with imperial patronage.

The form derives from a European prototype, found in silver, porcelain and base metals, though there is some suggestion that it originally found its way to Europe from an ealier Turkish influence (ibid., p.179).