A RARE OTTOMAN OR PERSIAN SADDLE, of wood covered with parchment, with rounded cantle extending over the shaped rounded sides at the rear, and with smaller projections forward of the frontal arch rising to a knotted pommel, the outer surfaces painted with green and red borders within gilt lines against a red ground on the seat and a yellow ground on the sides, the main edges throughout veneered with strips of bone with double line engraving, probably 18th Century | Christie's

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A RARE OTTOMAN OR PERSIAN SADDLE, of wood covered with parchment, with rounded cantle extending over the shaped rounded sides at the rear, and with smaller projections forward of the frontal arch rising to a knotted pommel, the outer surfaces painted with green and red borders within gilt lines against a red ground on the seat and a yellow ground on the sides, the main edges throughout veneered with strips of bone with double line engraving, probably 18th Century

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A RARE OTTOMAN OR PERSIAN SADDLE, of wood covered with parchment, with rounded cantle extending over the shaped rounded sides at the rear, and with smaller projections forward of the frontal arch rising to a knotted pommel, the outer surfaces painted with green and red borders within gilt lines against a red ground on the seat and a yellow ground on the sides, the main edges throughout veneered with strips of bone with double line engraving, probably 18th Century
15¾in.

拍品專文

For a similar saddle see G.C. Stone, A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor, 1934, p. 532, fig. 680, No. 7