An Ottoman Parcel-Gilt Silver Gun Powder Flask Holder Mounted with Fine Filigree Silver Work Encrusted With Corals & Turquoise Stones, The Balkans, Probably Prizren-Kosovo or Trebizond, Kosovo, Late 18th. – Early 19th.Century.

Identification Number: 569
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Description

Ottoman Arms & Armour, A Rare Parcel-Gilt Silver Gun Powder Flask Holder made in the early form of the Pilgrim’s Flask Shape Called Al-Matara with Mounted with Fine Filigree Silver Work Encrusted With Corals & Turquoise stones, The Balkans, Probably Prizren-Kosovo or Trebizond, Kosovo, Late 18th. – Early 19th.Century.

Condition

Excellent, silver tarnishings.

Provence

The European Art Market.

References

References:
1-
Golden Works from (1600-1900) the Collection of K
Notary, by Katepina Koppe, The Greek Library & Historical Archive of Athens 2002.
Please see the 18th. Century silver gilt Almond or Horn –Shaped gunpowder flask (Palska) decorated with corals catalogued on page 178, discussed on page 185.

2- The 19th. Century silver gilt Turkish dagger (Khanjar), decorated with filigree, coral, turquoise from Eastern Anatolia, Probably Trebizond. Lot 107, catalogued on page 104-105. Also lot 110, the (Qama) short sword catalogued on page 107.