LARGE gilt copper (tombak) goblet (matara)... - Lot 205 - Crait + Müller

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LARGE gilt copper (tombak) goblet (matara)... - Lot 205 - Crait + Müller
LARGE gilt copper (tombak) goblet (matara) with flattened pansu body and faceted neck, provided with two rings and a spout, with engraved decoration of floral stems on each face, and of a floral composition in a central mandorla. (Restoration to the ring, foot a little damaged, gilding heavily worn, missing its cap). Turkey, Ottoman period, about 17th century H. 28 cm ; length. 24,5 cm A similar gilt copper flask (tombaq) formerly attributed to the sixteenth century (Y. Petsopoulos (Ed.), Tulips, Arabesques and Turbans, Alexandria Press, London, 1982, fig. 13c, p. 35), and now dated to the seventeenth-eighteenth centuries, is in the British Museum, London (inv. 1897.0320.1). Another attributed to the 17th century is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. 1984.100). The particular shape of this 'matara' imitates that of the leather gourds attested in Central Asia as early as the 5th century BC. In the Ottoman world, these gourds were ceremonial objects used as a symbol of sovereignty and were used to store pilgrimage water for the sultan (J. Soustiel, sale Ricqlès, Drouot, Paris, 7 April 1993, lot 67). Some of the same shape date from the 16th century, with a less naturalistic decoration. Expert : Laure Soustiel - +33 6 09 47 27 31
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