تاريخ النشر
1750
مكان النشر
Syria (made) Damascus (made) -
الموضوع
Woodwork Islam
النوع
أخرى
اللغة
غير محدد
رقمي
نعم
مخطوط
لا
الأبعاد الفيزيائية
Rectangular panel length length: 73.6cm
(Note: Closed), Rectangular panel width width: 23.4cm
(Note: closed), Width: 85cm
(Note: Width when standing open), Height: 40cm
(Note: Vertical height when standing open)
المكتبة
Victoria and Albert Museum
معرف أصل المكتبة
411E-1880
رقم السجل
411E-1880
موقع المكتبة
Middle East Section
التاريخ
1750
ملاحظات
By the second half of the sixteenth century, Ottoman woodworkers had begun to employ inlays of mother of pearl and tortoiseshell, two technically difficult to work materials. This technique reached a very high standard under the Ottoman Turks after a court workshop was founded that specialised in mother of pearl inlay. New patterns were devised, and a combination of bone, mother of pearl and wood was used to inlay objects such as Quran stands, door, and boxes. This technique spread from Istanbul to Syria sometime during the late sixteenth century, after the Ottomans conquered Syria in 1516. Several artistic industries, including ceramics, were produced in Syria yet under the stylistic influence of the Ottoman court. These arts continued to be produced well into the twentieth century, until the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire in 1922.
İlişki
Vincent Robinson
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Wood inlaid with bone, mother-of-pearl and tortoiseshell.
Fiziksel açıklama
Qur'an stand composed of two leaves hinged together, each rectangular above and shaped below into a foliated arch, decorated on both leaves with a fine squares of alternating mother of pearl and tortoiseshell inlay, and fine bands of bone and wood along the outer most edges.