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A LARGE OTTOMAN BINDING
TURKEY, 18TH CENTURY
Comprising two boards, each side of the exterior in brown morocco Besides their function as manuscript covers, bindings such as ours were
with stamped and gilded central cusped medallion containing spiralling amongst the objects which were displayed in open niches in reception rooms
arabesques issuing saz leaves and peonies, similar spandrels, within gilt of upper-class Syrian residences during the Ottoman period. There is a very
border, doublures with blind stamped tooling and gilt outlines, borders of similar binding in the Metropolitan Museum which was probably made in the
leather filigree over gold ground, lightly scuffed same workshop given the identical use of binding stamps on both examples
Each cover 14½ x 10¡in. (37 x 26.5cm.)
(inv. no.1975.192.18).
£8,000-12,000 US$12,000-17,000
€9,300-14,000
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