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A LARGE SILVER AND PARCEL-GILT PENCASE (DIVIT)

Lot 137
27.10.2022 10:00UTC +00:00
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£ 50 400
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 137 | A LARGE SILVER AND PARCEL-GILT PENCASE (DIVIT)
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 40 000
A LARGE SILVER AND PARCEL-GILT PENCASE (DIVIT)

SIGNED MUS[T]AFA, PERIOD OF SULTAN MAHMUD I (R.1730-54), OTTOMAN TURKEY, MID-18TH CENTURY

Of typical form but unusually large and fine, with squat inkwell, the coffered ends and upper and lower sections of the well in gilt decorated with tight niello scrolls and an openwork fringe, the double-hinged gilt lid of the inkwell set with a red paste stone on the outside and the inside repoussé gilt with a calligraphic design of the names of The Seven Sleepers, tughra of Mahmud I stamped on the base of the inkwell and on the side of the penbox, maker's mark stamped on the upper ridge of the pen-box

15 3/8in. (39cm.) long





Provenance

The Berkeley Trust Collection, sold Sotheby's, London, 12 October 2004, lot 92



Literature

Toby Falk, Treasures of Islam, exhibition catalogue, Geneva, 1985, no.174



Exhibited

Treasures of Islam, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, 1985
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Gilding, Silver
Place of origin:Asia, Ottoman Empire, Turkey
Auction house category:All other types of objects
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