A Ming blue and white  porcelain ewer with ottoman silver mounts stamped with the tughara of Mehmed IV (R. 1642–1693), China, 16th century, and  Turkey, 17th century. Photo Sotheby's

the squat globular body on a raised splayed foot and slender tall neck, all of hexagonal faceted form, mounted at the mouth with a faceted collar chiselled with a floral scroll on a hatched ground and housing a faceted conical stopper, the narrow curved spout with a serpentine terminal, the double-curved handle retained by a brace around the neck and the foot, stamped with a tughra; 33cm. height. Lot 163. Estimate 40,000-60,000 GBP

EXHIBITED: Couleurs d'Orient, Brussels, 2010

LITTERATURE: Brussels 2010, p.44.

NOTE: The porcelain dates to the second quarter of the sixteenth century and bears a particularly elegant and attenuated form. A comparable ewer, also with Ottoman silver mounts of the seventeenth century, is in the collection of the Topkapi Saray (Krahl 1990, p.650, no.1002). It is of squater form than the present example and has a Xuande period mark on its base.

Sotheby's. An Eye For Opulence- Art of the Ottoman Empire. Londres | 24 avr. 2012, 02:30 PM www.sothebys.com