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Bookbinding16th century

Not on view
Book cover or binding with dark brown leather tooled with gold arabesques, a central band of Arabic-script cartouches, polychrome inlaid panels, and a decorated spine with alternating coral and dark sections
Leather book cover with tooled gilt decoration, featuring dense arabesque scrollwork across the central panel and a vertical border of dark ground with cartouches containing floral motifs; worn spine visible at right edge.

Unknown, Bookbinding, 16th century, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection, gift of Joan Palevsky, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Bookbinding
Place Made
Iran
Date Made
16th century
Medium
Leather, stamped and gilded
Dimensions
17 x 7 in. (43.2 x 17.8 cm)
Credit Line
The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection, gift of Joan Palevsky
Accession Number
M.73.5.549
Classification
Manuscripts
Collecting Area
Art of the Middle East: Islamic
Selected Bibliography
  • Pal, Pratapaditya, ed. Islamic Art: The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection. Los Angeles: Museum Associates, 1973.

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