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A RARE AND LARGE GILT-COPPER (TOMBAK) EWER AND BASIN

Ottoman Turkey, 16th or 17th century

The drop-shaped body with spiralling ribs, the flaring foot with openwork decoration, the splaying neck rising from a small ribbed ring, with domed ribbed lid, s-shaped handle and serpentine spout, the basin standing on a tall openwork foot, the bowl finely executed with spiralling ribs around an openwork ‘filter’ panel, the foot concealing a copper water container, the openwork decoration arranged in rows of paired palmettes and trefoils

  

Ewer 43cm. high; basin 25.5cm high, 34cm. diam.; ewer on basin 60 cm. high


Provenance: 

Mes Ader Picard Tajan, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 3 & 4 March 1986, lot 342 (‘Rare aiguière en “tumbaq” ciselée de côtes torses’ [..] ‘modèle inédit et d’une insigne rareté’)

Collection of Sadruddin Aga Khan (1972-2003), thence by inheritance to his wife Catherine Aga Khan until 2020


Published:

Mark Zebrowski, Gold, Silver & Bronze from Mughal India, London, 1997, cat 192, p.149


SOLD - Museum of Islamic Arts, Kuala Lumpur

Ottoman Tombak Ewer and Basin, 16th or 17th century

Tombak Basin, Ottoman Turkey, 16th or 17th century
Tombak Ewer and Basin, Ottoman Turkey, 16th or 17th century
Tombak Basin, Ottoman Turkey, 16th or 17th century
Detail from the openwork decoration of the Tombak Basin, Ottoman Turkey, 16th or 17th century

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