A rare and important Yildiz palace-ware silver-gilt enamelled plate, Turkey, late 19th Century

of shallow round form with a raised border, with white, blue, red, and green enamel and silver-gilt decoration, the central image featuring the Küçüksu Mihrişah Valide Sultan fountain, the border decorated with a band of silver-inlaid and enamelled rumi and double-rumi designs, with relief crescent moons containing alternating inscriptions and floral motifs, a band of stylised crescent moons to reverse, hook to foot for hanging 

In general good condition, some slight oxidisation to silver and on tin on reverse, minor flake to enamel paint on central image, as viewed.
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inscriptions
ma sha'a allah kana
"What God wishes exists."

al-nijah fi'l-sidq
"Salvation is in sincerity"

al-muqaddar ka'in
"What is preordained exists".

The Küçüksu Mihrişah Valide Sultan fountain is located on the Asian shore of the Bosphorus, near Anadolu Hisari and was constructed by Sultan Selim III's mother, Mihrişah Sultan in 1806.