Lot 208. A Chinese porcelain cup with Ottoman tombak mounts set with a coral finial, China and Turkey, 18th century.  Estimate 20,000 — 30,000 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's.

the body comprising a blue porcelain cup set in tombak mounts, including a splayed foot with incised floral details, with a hinged lid featuring three cartouches with foliate openwork design, surmounted by coral finial and curved handle - 17.5cm. height.

Note: This tombak incense burner is distinguished by the inclusion of a Chinese blue ceramic bowl, most probably attributable to the sixteenth/seventeenth century, possibly Ming dynasty. Although numerous examples of Ming ceramics with Ottoman additions are recorded, it is rare to find this on incense-burners as exemplified by the present example. An interesting comparison can be drawn with a jewelled censer in the Topkapi Palace Museum composed of a porcelain body from the Ming Dynasty and set with Ottoman additions, including gemstones on gold mounts and an openwork finial and cup (inv. no. 15/2771, illustrated in D. Roxburgh (ed.), Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years, 600-1600, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 2005, p.359, no.348).   

Sotheby's. Arts of the Islamic World, London, 26 Apr 2017, 10:30 AM