ID 828626
Lot 137 | A LARGE SILVER AND PARCEL-GILT PENCASE (DIVIT)
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 40 000
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 |
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| Medium: | Gilding, Silver |
| Place of origin: | Asia, Ottoman Empire, Turkey |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Gilding, Silver |
| Place of origin: | Asia, Ottoman Empire, Turkey |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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