Beautiful ewer and its basin with soap dish in tombak, Ottoman Turkey, 18th centuryCopper and mercury gilt set consisting of a ewer and its basin with soap dish: the ewer with piriform body on pedestal, the neck with cut sides strangled by a ring and closed by a semi-dome lid with molded decoration taken up at the base of the body to which it is connected by a scroll handle taking up the curve of the spout; the basin with gadrooned body and everted rim forming a flower corolla, closed by a soap-holder grid openwork with a rocaille composition of scrolls spread around oblong medallions. Height : 35 cm ; diameter : 35 cmSome shocks and wear, deformed lid grip . An Ottoman gilt-copper (tombak) ewer and basin, Turkey, 18th century