BOL DE HAMMAM (TÂS) EN TOMBAK
TURKEY, OTTOMAN ART, late 17th-early 18th CENTURY
A gilded copper (tombak) bowl with twisted gadrooned sides and a vertical neck. The bowl is embellished with blue, turquoise, white and green enamelled cabochons, forming nine enamelled rosettes on the gadroons and the neck, and a central rosette, gilding partially faded, enamels partially missing, one rosette sunken.
AN OTTOMAN TOMBAK HAMMAM BOWL (TÂS), TURKEY, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY.
Diameter : 14 cm ; height : 5.6 cm. Height : 5,6 cm.
See Gündag Kayaoglu, Tombak, Disbank, Istanbul, 1992, p. 2, for a similar hammam bowl.
Expert : L.S.
