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ITALY FOR THE OTTOMAN MARKET, 18TH CENTURY AND LATER One with two large pomegranates engraved with scrolling arabesques, two each with one large pomegranate, similarly engraved, the stems and bases probably 19th century in the form of coiled stems mounted with short scrolling vines, each with three smaller pomegranates to the stem, leaf finials now lacking, some tarnishing and minor losses to gilding The tallest 13in. (33.1cm.) high
This set of decorative pomegranates demonstrates the Ottoman taste for the Baroque-Rococo style. After Ottoman Turkish ambassadors were dispatched to Paris and Vienna, changes were sparked in the decorative repertoire of Ottoman Turkey. Seen to reflect to Ottoman's establishment of a modern and cosmopolitan culture, European-style art and architecture was considered the most appropriate form of expression (Sardar, 2000).
The engraved decoration of the large pomegranates draws on the vegetal motifs of seventeenth and eighteenth century Italian damask textiles (see, for example, a textile in the Victoria and Albert Museum, inv. no. T.43-1937), and a similar style of decoration soon entered the Ottoman artistic production in the eighteenth century. These pomegranates are likely to have been produced in Italy with an Ottoman Turkish market in mind.