ID 1033073
Lot 114 | A GILT, GESSOED AND PAINTED 'DAMASCUS ROOM'
Estimate value
£ 40 000 – 60 000
PROBABLY OTTOMAN SYRIA, DATED AH 1205/1790-1 AD
Comprising six red panels which form three walls, each decorated with floral sprays, four with double doors decorated with vases of flowers and bowls of fruit, two with open windows, each with calligraphic cartouches along the upper edge with Arabic poetry, together with five thin panels with a blue field decorated with scrolling gilt flowers and cartouches which alternate with landscapes and vases of flowers, with additional painted wooden components
The larger panels each approximately 8ft.5in. x 3ft.7in. (258cm. x 117cm.)
Provenance
Private Collection, UK, since 1950 (installed in house)
Literature
Amicia de Moubray and David Black, Carpets for the Home, London, 1999
| Medium: | Wood |
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| Place of origin: | Asia, Ottoman Empire, Syria |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Medium: | Wood |
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| Place of origin: | Asia, Ottoman Empire, Syria |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
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