AN OTTOMAN PARCEL-GILTREPOUSSÉ SILVER BOWL (TAZA) Balkans, Ottoman Provinces, 16th century Of circular shape, with reinforced rim and flattened raised centre, the cavetto fully decorated in high relief with a variety of animals including a stag, several birds, a long-eared quadruped, and a stylised haloed standing figure with a bird on his shoulder, all against a ring-punched ground, the centre with an applied parcel-gilt recumbent stag, the head now missing, three bands of beading from the centre to the rim, 168gr., 15.7cm diam. A variety of these early Ottoman Balkan silver bowls has appeared on the auction market in recent years. For further reference, please see Christie's South Kensington, 24 April 2015, lot 354; Christie's London, 26 October 2017, lot 201; and Sotheby's London, 24 April 2012, lot 165 and 3 October 2012, lot 250. They all share common features such as the vegetal and animal decoration in high relief to the cavetto, applied animals, often quadrupeds, to the omphalos, ring-punched grounds, and an overall Byzantine influence in the decorative vocabulary and its articulation.