Rare Antique Ottoman Mother of Pearl Sherbert Spoon sterling Canvas mounted onto wooden door

Canvas mounted onto wooden door panels featuring classic Tibetan tiger motifs

Interir velvet has marks commentate with age and use

Gorgeous antique Indian architectural ornament fashioned of carved and polychrome wood in the shape of a mythical demon beast or "Yali"

Bronzes talking tiger sculpture with double patination to represent its coat and stripes

artificial teeth and gums would be mounted in the metal jaws

Rare Antique Ottoman Mother of Pearl Sherbert Spoon sterling Canvas mounted onto wooden doorCoconut wood bowl with alternating bands of Mother of Pearl and engraved brass on the handle. These spoons were used to serve dessert and sweet foods, typically fruit sherbert, in the homes of nobility and wealthy merchants of Istanbul and the ottoman empire in the late 18th and 19th Centuries. Istanbul, 19th Century 9" x 1. 75"