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AN OTTOMAN BINDING
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AN OTTOMAN BINDING

TURKEY, 18TH CENTURY

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AN OTTOMAN BINDING
TURKEY, 18TH CENTURY
Comprising two boards and a pentagonal flap, the exterior red morocco with stamped and gilded central cusped medallion containing spiralling arabesques issuing saz leaves and peonies, similar spandrels, within gilt border, doublures covered in ebruli paper, slightly scuffed
Folio size 12¼ x 8¼in. (31 x 22cm.)
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Lot Essay

A similar though rather smaller binding is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated in Duncan Haldane, Islamic Bookbindings, London, 1983, pl.160, p.l72. In each there is a deep sunken margin and the central medallion and spandrels are incised and then stamped, tooled and gilded.

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