Centre piece of bookbinding
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
17th century (?)
This object is a centre piece designed for a leather bookbinding, produced in Iran and dated tentatively to the seventeenth century. It is constructed from leather and pasteboard, shaped into a rectangular panel with detailed incised decoration.
The central panel displays an incised landscape composition depicting a prominent tree with spreading branches, foliage, and animals including a grazing deer or quadruped beneath the branches. In addition to the rectangular leather panel, surrounding decorative border and corner pieces feature elaborate floral and foliate scrollwork.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Historical context
The piece was accessioned in 1885 and was subsequently transferred from the Art Museum to the National Art Library.
Identification
- Source note
- Transcribed from the Victoria and Albert Museum collection record for this single object; how far it represents a wider collectible type has not been independently verified.
- Museum object name
- Centre piece of bookbinding
- Museum object number
- 395-1885
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.