Artisan Crafted Solid Silver Picture Panel Chase Decorated Wine Bottle Middle Eastern Antique
VVV240641.T
£880.00
Antique Early 19th Century Top Quality Middle Eastern manufactured artisan crafted Wine Bottle in Solid Silver, Bulb based with a tapered neck and ball finial stopper the bottle is beautifully chase detailed to the body with a gallery wrap of picture panels in relief featuring traditional scenes of ladies in traditional dress, one with a looking glass, one playing what appears to be a Tanbur, one sat on haunches with a carafe and one working an olive grove (or similar), the picture panels are proud lip framed so as to appear as a window within the wine bottle finished with an expansive open gallery matt of floral designs and stippled details, the upper neck to the bottle is vacant band impressed with a silver mark and partial makers mark, the band terminating with a proud lip and accommodating a removable bulb type bottle stopper which is chased with a floral gallery and petalled roundel.