AN OTTOMAN SILVER EWER AND BASIN, TURKEY, 19TH CENTURY

Reference: ART3002147

The ewer of elegant melon fluted baluster form with high curving tubular spout, s-scroll handle linking neck and belly with cast curved leaf design. The upper handle with hinge to domed cover with pointed finial, the basin of wide flaring fluted form, the central aperture closed by a pierced support for the ewer. Ewer: 25 cm. Basin: 27 cm. diam. 33 cm. high

CATALOGUE NOTE Inscription basin: ‘au Consul General Pierre Bothen, Amicalement du Corps Consulaire d’Istanbul Le 12 Octobre 1972’.