Late-Ottoman watch chains with pendent – Central Anatolia / Turkey. - Gallery

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Late-Ottoman watch chains with pendent – Central Anatolia / Turkey.

Posted by Jean-Marie Criel on February 18, 2016 at 2:56am

Silver chain & ‘köstek sallaması’ (watch chains with decorative pendent). From Central Anatolia, Late-Ottoman era, ca. 1900. With Ottoman silver stamp. Purchased in Konya (the chain, in 1987) and Ankara (the ‘sallama’, in 1994). (Inv.nr. müç046 - Kavak Costume Collection - Antwerpen/Belgium). (SOLD to the ‘Etnografisch Museum, Antwerpen’, as part of a full costume).

Comments

Peter Hoesli February 18, 2016 at 9:32pm

This is beautiful Jean-Marie. I have not yet such a beauty in my collection and wait for a special piece to come my way... With kind regards. Peter
Jean-Marie Criel February 19, 2016 at 12:10am

Hello Peter,

In my experience, which stretches from 1985 to 2003, the best place* to find these late-Ottoman watch chains were the not-yet-fancy antique sellers in Ankara. Most of their modest shops are (were?) situated in the old commercial district (called ‘Samanpazarı’), on the southwestern slopes of the castle (in the triangle formed by the Çıkrıkçılar Yokuşu and the Atpazarı Yokuşu).

* = the supply was considerable, and the prices reasonable. Kind regards, JM.
Betty February 21, 2016 at 8:41pm

I love these watch chains very much. Do you perhaps know what the shape of the pendant symbolizes?
Jean-Marie Criel February 21, 2016 at 9:45pm

To Betty: No, alas, I don't have any idea... I bought several of these (most of them sold to the Ethnographic Museum of Antwerpen), but none of the sellers ever said anything special about the shape of the pendants. So, this question stays open...

Kind regards, JM.