DEFINITION
It is a large rice bowl used for rice presentation in food services during the Ottoman period.
SIZE
Diameter: 230mm Depth:37mm Weight: 690g
PERIOD
1793
DESCRIPTION
It is in a good condition. “Ismail Kalfa, the apprentice of Kafsici Abdi Aga, Year 1207’’ is written on it in Ottoman language (1793). There is no other processing on it other than the Ottoman script. Because it was the work of a journeyman, it was used by middle-class people.
STORY
Learning the craft, apprentices who started working with a master would become masters and journeymen as time went on. This work is also the production of one of those journeymen. Usually, if the journeyman did not fully master the work, the works he made were not made to order and were made to improve himself and gain a hand habit, and he would either buy such products for his own use or give them as a gift. Sometimes he would cover his salary by selling it below its value.