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    Ottoman Repoussed Silver Dish with Tugra

    Ottoman Turkey
    18th-19th century

    diameter: 20cm, height: 5cm, weight: 336g

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    UK art market

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    This decorative shallow serving dish is of high-grade silver that has been cast and repoussed with berry and strawberry motifs. (Strawberries are a favourite motif of Ottoman silversmiths.)

    The entire dish is in the shape of a leaf – perhaps a grapevine leaf – with serrated edges. The stem pf the leaf is pierced and decorated with a strawberry and a ribbon.

    The centre of the interior base has been stamped with a tugra (the symbol of the reigning sultan used as a local silver control mark.)

    The dish is without repairs and in excellent condition. The dish is finer and more ‘silvery’ than suggested by the photographs.

    References

    Pitarakis, B., & C. Merantzas, A Treasured Memory: Ecclesiastical Silver from Late Ottoman Istanbul in the Sevgi Gonul Collection, Sadberk Hanim Muzesi, 2006.

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