AN ARMENIAN TURKISH REPOUSSÉ SILVER BOWL with sloping sides and large raised central boss, the centre engraved with the scene of the Transfiguration, Christ revealed in his glory between Moses and Elijah, three Seraphim below, in a band of fruiting vine, the sides with an architectural arcade forming twelve niches, each containing one of the apostles, the centre stamped with the tughra of Abdulhamid II and the sah, late 19th century