Bookbinding — Detached binding, Iran, 16th century

Bookbinding — Detached binding, Iran, 16th century is an object recorded by Victoria and Albert Museum, dated 16th century. The museum's brief description reads: Detached cover of a bookbinding, Iran, 16th century.. Museum description: Leather over paper pasteboards; exterior cover block-stamped with blind and gold tooling; interior cover blind and gold tooled with leather filigree work. The dark brown leather panel is decorated with a stamped partly gilt lobed mandorla with pendants tapering to a rhomboid motif on the vertical axis; the mandorla and the cornerpieces of the board are decorated with interlacing palmettes; the outer border with cartouches with floral scrolls. The doublure in red leather with a central lobed mandorla with filigree work against a blue, green and gold paper ground. The museum record gives material recorded as pasteboard, leather; measurements Height 250 mm; Width 170 mm; place associated: Iran. 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.