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An engraved-steel hawking drum Anatolia or Central Asia, 15th Century image 1
An engraved-steel hawking drum Anatolia or Central Asia, 15th Century image 2
An engraved-steel hawking drum Anatolia or Central Asia, 15th Century image 3
An engraved-steel hawking drum Anatolia or Central Asia, 15th Century image 4
An engraved-steel hawking drum Anatolia or Central Asia, 15th Century image 5
Lot 111

An engraved-steel hawking drum
Anatolia or Central Asia, 15th Century

Islamic and Indian Art
12 November 2024, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£2,000 - £3,000

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An engraved-steel hawking drum
Anatolia or Central Asia, 15th Century

of flaring conical form with hide skin, the body engraved and decorated with a band of inscription, above a band of vegetal designs
18.2 cm. diam.

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Inscriptions: undeciphered.

Hawking drums were beaten by the falconer in order to scare prey into the air, and were purportedly particularly useful in duck hunting due to the reflection of the sound on the water (see K. Folsach, Fighting, Hunting, Impressing: Arms and Armour from the Islamic World 1500-1850 p. 185). They may also have been used to recall the falcon. A 19th Century Turkish falconry drum (bazz) of comparable form is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (89.4.2810). A 16th Century Ottoman hawking drum in The David Collection, Copenhagen, is illustrated in Folsach (op cit, p. 185, no. 77). For a further 16th Century Ottoman example sold at Christie's, see Islamic Art, Indian Miniatures, Rugs and Carpets, 25 April 1995, lot 301.

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