Settee
| Accession Nr.: | 54.628.1 |
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| Date of production: |
second half of the 19th cent.
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| Place of production: | Turkey (Ottoman Empire) |
| Materials: | ebony; mother- of-pearl; walnut wood |
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| Techniques: | bone inlay; carved; decorated with tin inlays; engraved decoration; turned |
| Dimensions: |
height: 107 cm
width: 161 cm
depth: 69 cm
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The two front legs of the sofa are turned, the back ones are plain, prismatic. The seat rail is decorated with zigzag lines and a carved fan at the bottom middle and on the two sides. The horizontal arm rests are supported by a trellis of balusters. The vertical back support is divided into three square- shaped segments enframed by zigzag motifs and a trellis of lathe-turned balusters (Mashrabiyya work). The top cresting is also divided into three identical sections.
The armchair is one-part variation of the sofa its details are identical with those of the sofa.
The pieces were made for western export, decorated with oriental motifs.
Literature
- a kiállítást rendezte: Batári Ferenc, Vadászi Erzsébet: Historizmus és eklektika. Az európai iparművészet stíluskorszakai. Iparművészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 1992. - Nr. 77. (Batári Ferenc)
