The coffee pot is on a short straight foot, has a pear-shaped silver-plated copper body, and is hand chiseled with panels in the form of the niche "Mihrab" floral pattern and 4 lobed medallions within Arabic scripts, mounted with a silver-plated brass foot, spout, serpentine handle, and mouth rim...
DIMENSIONS:
Height: 4 cm (1.57 inches). Diameter: 5.5 cm (2.17 inches). WEIGHT: 23 grams (0.81 ounces).
CONDITION: In good condition, showing age and usage, minor tarnish spots...
According to the previous owner, this amulet case was found before World War II on the Mohacs battlefield in Hungary...
DIMENSIONS:
Height: 5.5 cm (2.17 inches)
Diameter: 5.4 cm (2.13 inches)
Total weight: 197 grams
CONDITION: In good condition with signs of age and use. Nice patina. Gold gilding is partly worn, minor dents on the lips of the bowls and rims...
It is a large, hand-crafted tinned copper piece with a flattened, bulbous shape and a long, hand-wrought baluster neck. The ewer has a hinged cover with an acorn finial, a swan-shaped spout, and an "S" scrolled handle with a dragon-head terminal...
This form of bird’s motives is very characteristic for Armenian art and religio...
REFERENCES:
1. A similar tray is published in the Sot...
The rectangular section pencase with pronounced rounded terminals, one hinged, each engraved with floral vine, the barrel-shaped truncated rectangular inkwell with hinged cover and small turning latch.
Divit Qalamdan from the Ottoman Empire were traveling quill pen holders with attached inkwells carried by scribes serving both merchants and governm...
The ewer is hand-hammered from several elements composed together, including a rounded body resting on a short, splayed foot. Decorated with cast copper circular bosses stamped with a wheel of fortune desi...
The cover (filter) is pierced with four, draining holes in the form of Chinese Ming dynasty good Luck charms coins. The...
With a spherical body rising from a short foot with a central bulbous ring, resting on a splayed foot, the tall, ribbed tubular neck is adorned at the top and bottom with openwork bands of a typical Safavid pattern four-petaled blossom. The top band with remains of turquoise stone inlays may indicate that the bo...
The entire broad blade is superbly etched on both sides with Arabic calligraphy, possibly verses from the Qur'an, a serpent, and the figure of the mythological demon "Div" (دیو).
The hilt has an elaborate pommel with an integral cross guard, down curving quillons shaped like stylized mythical dragon heads, and a pair of langets with silv...