Bookbinding — An embroidered bookbinding, Turkey, 1800s
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1800s
Bookbinding — An embroidered bookbinding, Turkey, 1800s is an object recorded by Victoria and Albert Museum, dated 1800s. The museum's brief description reads: Bookbinding, An embroidered bookbinding, Turkey, ca.
1800s. Museum description: An Islamic bookbinding made of leather over pasteboard; exterior covers decorated with multi coloured embroidery; interior covers of blue paper doublures with cut out patterm. Patterned with fillets, corner pieces and centrepieces. The museum record gives material recorded as leather, pasteboard; measurements Height 32.8 cm; Width 22 cm; place associated: Turkey. These details come from the holding museum's own record; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- leather, pasteboard
- Dimensions
- Height 32.8 cm; Width 22 cm
Technical characteristics
- Place recorded
- Turkey
Identification
- Museum object name
- Bookbinding
- Museum object number
- L.1945-1981
- Museum system number
- O1804475
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
- Research required: confirm materials, dimensions, maker and wider type against the museum record and a specialist reference.