λ A LARGE HARDWOOD MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID OTTOMAN CHEST
Ottoman Turkey, 18th - 19th century

Of rectangular shape, resting on six bracket lion paw-shaped feet, each side carved and inlaid with mother-of-pearl tesserae arranged as roundels and cypress trees in the centre, framed within a geometric fretwork band, rosettes on the edge of the lid, the panel at the front with similar decoration to the lid but with birds, lobed cartouches and ewers instead of cypress trees, the shorter sides with a central roundel surrounded by quarters of roundels on each corner, the interior plain with two smaller rectangular compartments, 59cm x 124cm x 56cm.

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