29th Oct, 2020 13:00
Islamic & Indian Art
λ A LARGE HARDWOOD MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND TORTOISE SHELL-INLAID OTTOMAN CHEST
Ottoman Turkey, late 18th - 19th century and later
λ A LARGE HARDWOOD MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND TORTOISE SHELL-INLAID OTTOMAN CHEST
Ottoman Turkey, late 18th - 19th century and later
Of rectangular shape, resting on six bracketed feet, each side carved and inlaid with mostly mother-of-pearl tesserae arranged as roundels and fishes in the centre, and leafy rosette sprays all around them, a few decorative patterns containing some tortoise shell tesserae, the shorter sides with a central roundel surrounded by vegetal sprays, some tesserae painted in red to enhance the two-tone combination of mother-of-pearl and tortoise shell inlays typical of earlier examples, 58.5cm x 116.5cm x 59.5cm.
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