with black leather-covered body of curved tapering circular section seamed along the inside and incorporating a buff leather suspension thong, ormolu mounts comprising circular top and terminal of spherical form, the former stepped and chased with borders of running foliage against grounds of cross-hatching, plain bulbous nozzle with stopper-cap retained by a chain, and retaining much of its gilding, 22.5 cm high

For two other examples of similar form in the former ‘Turkische Commer’ of the Electors of Saxony, now in the Staatliche Kunstsammlung, Dresden, see Holger Schuckelt, Die Türckische Cammer, 2010, pp.118 and 120, nos. 42 and 90.