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Lot 127*

An Ottoman silver-gilt scribe's Pen-Case, (divit) and Mirror
Turkey, 19th Century
(2)

8 April 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £2,000 inc. premium

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An Ottoman silver-gilt scribe's Pen-Case, (divit) and Mirror
Turkey, 19th Century

the pencase of oblong form with hinged lid and bombe shaped inkpot, decorated to each end and to the edges of the inkpot with floral vines, embossed to the inkpot with tughra and to the body with partial tughra, maker's mark and silver test mark; the mirror decorated in openwork with a central roundel containing a rose, surrounded by floral and foliate interlace, the border with a floral vine, backed with red velvet, the reverse with an openwork floral vine to border of mirror
the pencase 26.5 cm. length, 398 g.; the mirror 25.4 cm. diam.(2)

Footnotes

Provenance:
From the estate of Ambassador George C. McGhee (1912-2005), US Assistant Secretary for State for the Near East, South Asia and Africa 1949; US Ambassador to Turkey 1951-53 and to Germany 1963-68. His interests were wide-ranging and he collected primarily during the 1940s-70s.

Proceeds from the sale of this lot will be used to support the programs and operations of the McGhee Foundation, Middleburg, VA.

Inscriptions: the pen-case with tughra of Mahmud II (ibn-i Abdulhamid) (r. 1808-39) and maker's mark as mustafa shahri, "Mustafa Sehri".

Mustafa Sehri is recorded as a silversmith whose mark appears along with the tughra of Mahmud II in Garo Kurkman, Ottoman Silver Marks, Istanbul, 1996, p. 108.

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