Lot 207
  • 207

Two Ottoman parcel-gilt silver cups, stamped with tughras, Turkey, circa 1900

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • silver
each with ribbed flaring body and scalloped rim, on an openwork foliate base, with applied floral blossoms decorating the exterior, punched with tughras, sahh and assay marks

Condition

With some rubbing to parcel-gilt surface, the applied floral decoration partly missing on one cup, fragile as consistent with finness of application, light oxidisation to body, as viewed.
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Catalogue Note

Although the tughras are undecipherable, stylistically, these correspond to the period of Sultan Abdulhamid II (r. 1876-1909).