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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ARTHUR & CHARLOTTE VERSHBOW
"TURKISH" MARBLED PAPERS - Album or sample book of so-called Aher papers, containing 31 polished and marbled quarter sheets in the Turkish manner, in various colors, some with gold. [France and perhaps Turkey, mid-17th century].
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"TURKISH" MARBLED PAPERS - Album or sample book of so-called Aher papers, containing 31 polished and marbled quarter sheets in the Turkish manner, in various colors, some with gold. [France and perhaps Turkey, mid-17th century].
231 x 174 mm. Contemporary gilt-paneled French vellum binding over paste-board, inscribed "mariane holandoise" (slightly soiled). Provenance: acquired by Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow from E.P. Goldschmidt, 1965.
Fine examples of "Turkish" marbled papers, much prized by early travelers to the Near East. Aher paper, used by Turkish and Persian calligraphers, in its plain state was both imported from Europe and produced locally; it was then marbled and treated to achieve a smooth and shiny appearance. With the development of the marbling trade in Germany, Holland and France during the 17th century, Aher paper from Turkey gradually lost its appeal. The Vershbow papers are from French mills (at least two stocks: bell and shield with name watermarks), but may have been either marbled in Turkey or in France in the Turkish manner. The sheets are here collected in an album, but they normally served as wrappers, decoration in libris amicorum, paste-downs in fine bindings or liners in leather boxes.
Literature: Albert Haemmerle, Buntpapier: Herkommen, Geschichte, Techniken (Munich 1961); R.J. Wolfe, Marbled Paper: its history, technique and patterns (Philadelphia 1990).
231 x 174 mm. Contemporary gilt-paneled French vellum binding over paste-board, inscribed "mariane holandoise" (slightly soiled). Provenance: acquired by Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow from E.P. Goldschmidt, 1965.
Fine examples of "Turkish" marbled papers, much prized by early travelers to the Near East. Aher paper, used by Turkish and Persian calligraphers, in its plain state was both imported from Europe and produced locally; it was then marbled and treated to achieve a smooth and shiny appearance. With the development of the marbling trade in Germany, Holland and France during the 17th century, Aher paper from Turkey gradually lost its appeal. The Vershbow papers are from French mills (at least two stocks: bell and shield with name watermarks), but may have been either marbled in Turkey or in France in the Turkish manner. The sheets are here collected in an album, but they normally served as wrappers, decoration in libris amicorum, paste-downs in fine bindings or liners in leather boxes.
Literature: Albert Haemmerle, Buntpapier: Herkommen, Geschichte, Techniken (Munich 1961); R.J. Wolfe, Marbled Paper: its history, technique and patterns (Philadelphia 1990).
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