A DECOUPAGE ALBUM PAGE WITH A GARDEN, TURKEY, OTTOMAN, LATE 16TH/17TH CENTURY
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June 10, 06:00 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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A DECOUPAGE ALBUM PAGE WITH A GARDEN, TURKEY, OTTOMAN, LATE 16TH/17TH CENTURY
watercolour heightened with gold, finely cut paper and feathers laid down on paper, the margins decorated with interlacing gold leaves
composition: 21.5 by 12cm.
leaf: 34.3 by 20cm.
Ex-collection Bouvier, Switzerland, acquired in Egypt in 1950s.
The skillful and delicate technique of decoupage was perfected in the sixteenth century in Ottoman Turkey. One of the most celebrated of these artists was the master Efsançi Mehmed (d.1534), who created an entire garden of paper cut outs measuring twenty centimetres in length and whose fame was such that the grand vizier himself visited the artist at his home (see Atasoy 2002, p.73-89).