album;
painting
- Museum number
- 1928,0323,0.46.98
- Title
- Series: The Habits of the Grand Signor's Court
- Description
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A kahveci; single-page painting mounted on album folio. A youth who serves coffee wearing a blue tunic, red trousers, yellow shoes and white turban with a red cap and holding a cup in each hand. Inscribed. Album contains 124 paintings of Turkish sultans and court officials.
Ink, opaque watercolour and gold on paper. Album bound in green leather with pages of Persian paper, according to inscription. Page edges gilded with gold.
- Production date
- 1620 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 21.30 centimetres (manuscript)
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Height: 20.70 centimetres (page)
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Thickness: 3.80 centimetres (manuscript)
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Width: 16.30 centimetres (manuscript)
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Width: 13.70 centimetres (page)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1928,0323,0.46 .1-.122 for all folios included in this album.
For spine and front matter inscriptions, see 1928,0323,0.46.1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1928
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred from the British Library.
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- 1928,0323,0.46.98
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: SL.5258
