AN ENGRAVED GILT-COPPER EWER
Ottoman Turkey, dated 1256 AH (1840 - 1841 AD)

Of typical pyriform shape, resting on an inward-caving, gently splayed, circular foot, rising to a tall, tapering neck, surmounted by a dome-like, hinged lid with a bulbous knob, with a slender, upward-turned spout and sinuous handle on the sides, the wide decorative band on the body featuring scrolling floral sprays with rosette blossoms and foliage and a large cusped cartouche in-filled with a lobed arch framing a naskh epigraphic inscription and the date 1256 AH against a hatched ground, flanked by two tall cypress trees, 37.8cm high.