Lot 83
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A LARGE OTTOMAN BINDING
A LARGE OTTOMAN BINDING
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A LARGE OTTOMAN BINDING

TURKEY, 18TH CENTURY

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A LARGE OTTOMAN BINDING
TURKEY, 18TH CENTURY
Comprising two boards, each side of the exterior in brown morocco with stamped and gilded central cusped medallion containing spiralling arabesques issuing saz leaves and peonies, similar spandrels, within gilt border, doublures with blind stamped tooling and gilt outlines, borders of leather filigree over gold ground, lightly scuffed
Each cover 14½ x 10 3/8in. (37 x 26.5cm.)

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Lot Essay

Besides their function as manuscript covers, bindings such as ours were amongst the objects which were displayed in open niches in reception rooms of upper-class Syrian residences during the Ottoman period. There is a very similar binding in the Metropolitan Museum which was probably made in the same workshop given the identical use of binding stamps on both examples (inv. no.1975.192.18).

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