Author
unknown
Author Original
مجهول
Publication Date
The second half of the seventeenth century AD
Publication Place
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Khninko Museum
Subject
Copper alloy, hammered, embossed, engraved and using the gold plating method (tompac) — Anonymous
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
الارتفاع (مع الغطاء) : 30 سم
Library
Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID
196 БВ
Record ID
object;EPM;uc;Mus21;34;ar
Library Location
Khninko Museum
Date
The second half of the seventeenth century AD
Notes
This two-handled jug is made of a copper-zinc alloy and plated with gold using a technique called Turkish tomac (plating with gold amalgam practiced in Turkey in the 17th-18th centuries) and was probably intended to be used for drinking. One example of this development are the inscriptions on the horizontal bands around both the jug's body and the bottom of its lid, which contain rhyming verses and wishes remembering the drink (translated by O. Halenko): Our pleasure comes from a pleasant drink, as we have already established. Do not hesitate, drink, and your sadness will be changed into joy. Take in your hand this mug of joy and fill your soul with happiness! In your special celebration, this drinking mug will bring joy back to your heart. Let us shake our hands in such joy that our enemy will become blind (from envy). Let us drink the pink drink and have fun and live the joy. The tradition of feasting, which included drinking wine, disappeared from the public life of the Ottoman Turks during the reign of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (1520-1566), but according to historical data in the Ottoman Empire, including Crimea, a sufficient amount of drink was produced for the local market and for export to Europe.
Sample Text
"Metal Jug" within Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;uc;Mus21;34;ar
