This type of covered bowls is well known in the luxurious production of gilt copper ware (tombak) from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Several pairs of such covered dishes (kapalı sahan) have been sold at Sotheby’s, London, 29 October 2025, lot 253, and at Christie’s, London, 6 October 2009, lot 222; 9 October 2014, lot 101; and 23 April 2015, lot 189.

Ceramic examples are much rarer, due to their fragility, particularly those that have retained their covers, as in the present case. Another example decorated with the same design, but in a much more fragmentary state of preservation, is in the Louvre Museum, Paris (inv. AD 6255).