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Four-flower tray once belonging to a certain Cezayirli Haci …
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Four-flower tray once belonging to a certain Cezayirli Haci …
See original version (French)
Estimate €4,000 - €6,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Four-flower tray once belonging to a certain Cezayirli Haci 'Osman Agha
Ottoman Empire, 17th century, dated hegira 1102 / AD 1691.
Red copper with deeply chased decoration inlaid with black paste; in the centre, a six-pointed rosette is enlivened by stylised tulips, rosehips and interlacing designs; around it, ten sprays of hyacinths, tulips, carnations and rosehips alternate with arabesque medallions ending in three-lobed fleurons; the border, decorated with floral garlands, chevrons and interlacing designs, bears the name of its owner and the date.
Condition: small crack; good overall condition.
D. 60 cm (23.6 in.)
Inscription :
sahibuhu Cezayirli Haci 'Osman Agha sene 1102.
"Its owner is Cezayirli Haci 'Osman Agha, year 1102.
"Its owner is Cezayirli Haci 'Osman Agha, year 1102".
Exhibition:
Turquie, au nom de la tulipe, Centre culturel de Boulogne-Billancourt, 1993, cat. no. 40, p. 106 (exhibition label on reverse).
Provenance :
Former collection of M. and Mme Benli, Paris.
The floral decoration - tulips, carnations, hyacinths and wild roses - is common to Iznik ceramics and imperial silks. It spread throughout all the provinces of the empire. The date AH 1102 corresponds to the last year of the reign of Süleyman II (r. 1687-1691). The inscription refers to an owner whose epithet Cezayirli ("the Algerian") suggests an officer or dignitary active in Ottoman Algeria: it thus bears witness to the circulation of prestige objects - or at least their decorative registers - between Istanbul and the distant provinces of the empire, from Anatolia to the shores of North Africa.
An important Ottoman engraved copper tray inscribed for its owner Cezayirli Haci 'Osman Agha, Ottoman Empire, dated 1102 AH / 1691 AD.
Red copper deeply chiselled and inlaid with black paste; the border bears the owner's name and date. 1102 AH corresponds to the last year of the reign of Suleyman II (r. 1687-1691); the Cezayirli ("the Algerian") epithet suggests an officer or dignitary active in Ottoman Algeria, attesting to the circulation of prestige objects between Istanbul and the distant provinces of the empire. Exhibited: Turquie, au nom de la tulipe, Centre culturel de Boulogne-Billancourt, 1993, cat. no. 40, p. 106.
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