A LARGE ISLAMIC WATER FAUCET FROM TURKISH HAMAM
DESCRIPTION:
A very Large brass tubular water tap from the Turkish Hamam form extending into a highly stylist lion head with lozenge on its forehead producing from its mouth a further more pronounced elongated animal head with stylist handle of ISLAMIC turban & the spout emerging as a tube between its lips, a lozenge and drop-motif engraved on its forehead with simple geometric motifs.
PERIOD:
early 19th Century
