Live Auction 18768The Oliver Hoare Collection
A PAIR OF TONGS AND TWO GOLD-INLAID AND OVERLAID CALLIGRAPHERS' IMPLEMENTS
Lot 83

A PAIR OF TONGS AND TWO GOLD-INLAID AND OVERLAID CALLIGRAPHERS' IMPLEMENTS

OTTOMAN TURKEY, 19TH CENTURY

Closed25 October 2019

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A PAIR OF TONGS AND TWO GOLD-INLAID AND OVERLAID CALLIGRAPHERS' IMPLEMENTS
OTTOMAN TURKEY, 19TH CENTURY
comprising a pair of ember tongs, a prong and one hollow hilted knife, the circular hollow section containing a smaller brass hilted and rectangular bladed knife
The tongs 10in. (25.5cm.) long

Specialist note

A comparable example to these ember tongs is published James Allan & Brian Gilmour, Persian Steel, the Tanavoli Collection, London, Oxford, 2000, no.P.31. That example was made in Rayen in the 20th century.