ID 1404798
Lot 111 | A COSTUME ALBUM
Estimate value
£ 150 000 – 200 000
ATTRIBUTED TO FENERCI MEHMED, OTTOMAN ISTANBUL, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Watercolour heightened with gold on paper, the album comprising 150 full page illustrations of figures standing against a blue sky, almost all labelled below in Ottoman Turkish and under half with additional Armenian labels, some with additional labels in Greek script and some with smaller Greek captions on their versos, in brown morocco, the doublures marbled paper one with the bookplate 'From the Library of Virginia House, Richmond', the quires largely separated from the binding
Folio 14 5/8 x 9 7/8in. (37 x 25.1cm.)
Provenance
Ambassador & Mrs. Alexander Weddel (d.1948), Virginia House, Richmond
| Place of origin: | Asia, Ottoman Empire, Turkey |
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| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings, Arms & Armor |
| Place of origin: | Asia, Ottoman Empire, Turkey |
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| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings, Arms & Armor |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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