I search a lot on Russian and Turkish glass and both are very difficult to get information on.
Partly because I do not speak the language of either. But talking in the case of Turkish glass, the impression I get is that it wasn't highly documented, some appears to have been from Bohemia, it appears to me that some might have been from Bohemia and decorated in Turkey but some might perhaps have been decorated in Bohemia (I have spotted the odd piece with very similar enamelling on to some Bohemian glass and quite obscure designs i.e. one or two pieces in Das Bohmische Glas with similar enamelling early 1800s), and then some in my opinion might have been from France? And whilst I have found some documentation and translated it, there really doesn't appear to be a huge amount that is accessible if you don't speak Turkish... and possibly not a huge amount of documentation full stop. I've found the odd research article on their 19th century production and there is one book I think on Beykoz but it's hard to find much documented info.
Some of the glass is not my cup of tea at all, but there are jewels here and there that are really beautiful.
I have one recent piece that is absolutely immaculately made. And some of those pieces you linked to, whilst not my thing, are precision made pieces.
It's a very interesting market that is under researched (the 19th century and earlier) and even the 20th century. The more recent output from Pasabahce as far as I can see has a huge range from pedestrian to immaculate specialist pieces.
Yes, your cocktail stick pot does have remarkable similarities.
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