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Coffee pot
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Coffee pot
- Place of origin:
Egypt (made)
- Date:
19th century (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Unknown (production)
- Materials and Techniques:
Silver, parcel gilt
- Museum number:
M.1816-1944
- Gallery location:
In Storage
Goldsmiths in the Islamic world had long used the type of openwork decoration seen on this silver coffee pot. The patterns, however, are European in origin. The foot and the top of the lid, for instance, have been formed from a row of acanthus leaves.
The huge expansion of the Ottoman empire in the 16th century was followed by a period of crisis after 1600. Patronage of the arts revived after 1650, but on a more modest scale. At first, the revival of 16th-century Ottoman traditions and the adoption of Iranian artistic ideas were the main sources of change. From the 1740s, however, an Ottoman Baroque style emerged when designers and makers applied non-figurative European motifs to Ottoman forms. The Ottoman Baroque flourished until the 1820s, when new types of European ornament were introduced.
