AN ENGRAVED AND ENAMELLED OTTOMAN SAUCER
Ottoman Turkey or Balkan Provinces, 18th century

Of shallow rounded shape, resting on a gently convex base, with a short cavetto and wide, splayed rim, the interior engraved with scrolling and interlocking split palmette trellis against a hatched and ring-punched ground, the central roundel with a typical arabesque pattern set against a light green champlevé enamelled ground, the saucer further enhanced with miniature, applied brass bosses scattered in the negative spaces created by the vegetal meanders, 21cm diam.