Water Scoop
Water Scoop
Water Scoop

Image credit: The Khalili Collections

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This is the only precisely dated Ottoman silver object of the sixteenth century. The exterior of the bowl bears an inscription in a rounded script with careful pointing, engraved and inlaid with a black composition. The inscription begins with the basmalah followed by a quote from the surah al-Anbiya' (XXI), verse 30, 'and (we made) from water every living thing', and the date, 985, in figures. The tubular handle, with a band of semi-precious stones set in collar mounts, is constructed in sections and terminates in a knob with a ring set in a polyhedron.

The Khalili Collections

London

Title

Water Scoop

Date

985 AH (1577–1578)

Medium

silver sheet, with traces of spinning & gilding, inlay in black & semi-precious stones

Accession number

444

Work type

Sculpture

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The Khalili Collections

London, Greater London England

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