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Large Omani antique silver coffee pot
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Below you find a collection of silver household utensils. Sets of silver-work consisting of a coffeepot an incense-burner and a rose-water sprinkler were until recently made in Muscat and Mattrah. Formerly they were in constant use but nowadays they are only used on formal occasions. Oman´s traditional coffee-pot (Dallah) is that from Nizwa. Its shape is quite distinctive with a sharply defined waist. Most of the old coffee-pots are made of copper with brass embellishments . Antique silver coffee-pots are extremely rare! Silver coffee pots in the souq are nearly always made after the 1970´s for expatriates or tourists. Coffee pots often have little danglers at the base of the handle. Sometimes small stones have are sealed in to the lid . Their purpose to announce the boiling of the coffee, other say their rattle would give away anyone lifting the lid to add poison to the pot...
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