🏺 Day 3 of Iznik week! This small dish produced in Iznik between c. AD 1650-1700, is painted in green, blue, black and manganese. In the centre are bands, which are reserved in white over a blue ground and outlined in black. They work together to form geometrical patterns, including a hexagonal star. The central roundel is surrounded by a series of stylised lotus petals, painted in green, with small blue flowers in between. Cloud patterns and semi-flowers are present on the rim, while a narrow band of blue and green vertical stripes decorated the outside. 

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🏺 Day 2 of Iznik week! Dated to between AD 1590-1600, this Iznik ware jug has a faience, globular body with a tall opening neck and a comparatively short handle that rests on a low splayed foot-ring. Painted in cobalt-blue, green, black and brownish-red, the body and neck are richly decorated with lobed patterns, floral scrolls and tulips. A narrow chevron pattern separates the neck and body, while a similar wavy line pattern and a band of simple scrolls are present just below the rim and just above the foot-ring, respectively.

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🏺 Day 1 of Iznik week! Dated to c. AD 1560-75, this Iznik "cypress tree dish" has a faience body with rounded sides and an everted sloping rim that stands on a low foot-ring. Painted in blue, green, black and brownish-red, a tall cypress tree stands in the centre, flanked by carnations and tulips. Scrollwork and cloud patterns decorate the rim, while small flowers painted in blue are present on the outside of the dish. 

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🎨 A camp scene depicting a woman milking an animal and shepherds with their flocks in the foreground. In the background, trees and flowers grow on the rocky hillside (Shiraz, c. AD 1560).

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🗡 An Indian ceremonial dagger decorated with gold bidriwork dated to the 18th - 19th century AD. The dagger once belonged to the Governor-General of India (AD 1813 - 1823), Francis Rawdon-Hastings, the 1st Marquess of Hastings. 

📝 In his private journal, the Marquess writes: The Nawab Ruhmut Khan, ruler of Koonjpoora, with his brother, Gholam-Mohee-Deen Khan, came to meet me with all his armed retinue... These Afghan Chiefs are fine-looking men. January 2, 1815". This dagger was gifted to the Marquess by Gholam-Mohee-Deen Khan and an inscription of his name, "Golam Moledeen" is present on the dagger's hilt. 

🇺🇸 Before serving as Governor-General of India, the Marquess also served with the British army for years during the American Revolutionary War and in 1794 during the War of the First Coalition. During the American Revolutionary War, the Marquess saw action at the battles of Lexington and Concord and most famously the Battle of Bunker Hill, where he is depicted in back of Trumbull's "The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill" standing on the American breastworks waving the British Ensign. He participated in the second assault on Breed's Hill where his superior, Captain Harris was wounded beside him. The Marquess, a Lieutenant at the time, took command of the company and led it for the third and final assault. However, when the assault began to falter, he stood atop the American redoubt, waving the British Ensign and inspiring his men. He would later see action during the Campaigns in the Carolinas and New York, the battles of the New York Highlands and in the Southern campaign.

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🏺 A 12th century AD Seljuk composite white fritware bowl with flaring sides. There is an incised decorative band below the rim showing semi-palmettes and is enriched with tiny pierced holes and five cobalt-blue lines. The bowl’s colourless alkaline glaze has a greenish tinge where it is collected at the base.

📜 Seljuq white ware is perhaps best compared to the contemporary Sung period ‘chi’ing-pai’ porcelain. This new composite white frit material made it possible to make the walls of vessels very thin, some of them being almost translucent and, furthermore, ensuring that the body of the vessel was white all through. To enhance the ‘finesse’ of these vessels, the potters sometimes even pierced them and the tiny holes thus formed were then filled by the transparent and colourless glaze which covered the entire surface. These were then decorated with incised, carved and moulded designs or painted with cobalt blue under the glaze.

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🛡 A very fine balkan miquelet blunderbuss dated to the 19th century AD.

ℹ️ The half-octagonal flared barrel measures 56cm in length and is profusely silver-damascened with foliate arabesques. The gun possesses a striped walnut fullstock, of which, the swollen butt is decorated with shaped mother-of-pearl pieces, embellished with brass piqué work and geometric brass and ebony shaped stud work. The button triggers are decorated with silver-damascene, while the barrel bands are made of silver and are nielloed with arabesques against an engraved ground. The lock is of a traditional form and is inlaid with bands of silver pellets. The bridle is covered with an engraved silver sheet, which is struck by the maker's mark. 

📜 The blunderbuss is the ancestor of the modern shotgun and was originally developed as a smoothbore, muzzle-loading firearm in the Netherlands/Germany in the 16th century AD, remaining popular until the mid 19th century AD. The term "blunderbuss" originates from the Dutch word "donderbuis", which is a combination of the the words donder (thunder) and buis (pipe). 

🐎 The firearms’ defining feature is its flared muzzle which not only spread the shot, but also made it easier to funnel powder and shot into the weapon, especially on horseback or a moving carriage. It is for this reason that the weapon was initially used by cavalry, before later becoming popular on naval vessels and in urban combat. 

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💎 A fine Yemeni wedding necklace made of gold-washed silver and coral (c. AD 1890 - 1900).

⚒️ Yemeni silversmith tradition was active from as early as the mid AD 1700's and was widely noted for its intricate use of filigree and fine granulation. Silversmiths in Yemen often melted down silver coins to produce dagger hilts and scabbards, bridal jewellery such as this one and other silver objects. Interestingly, the Maria Theresa thaler (a silver bullion coin of Maria Theresa, the Empress of the Holy Roman Empire (r. AD 1745 - 1780)) was especially popular with silver smiths because of its consistent silver content and fineness. The coin was so popular, that merchants involved in the Mocha coffee trade with the French requested that their produce be paid for with these thalers.

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