Rare guéridon décagonal (Sehpa) - Lot 137

Lot 137
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Rare guéridon décagonal (Sehpa) - Lot 137
Rare guéridon décagonal (Sehpa) Turkey, Ottoman art, 17th century Of faceted form, resting on ten legs forming domed arches, inlaid with mother-of-pearl and tortoiseshell veneers bordered by bone fillets. Decorated with hexagons. A central star on the top. Restorations and missing inlays. H. 35.5 ; Diameter : 38 Private collection, Mulhouse, acquired before 1980. The pedestal tables (Sehpa) dating from the 17th century are very rare. A very similar pedestal table, with a decoration and proportions close to this one is in the Mevlâna Müzesi in Konya (Inv. no. 354). A scribe's chest with the same decoration is in the British Museum (1991,0717.2), published in Ladan Akbarnia, The Islamic World: a History in Objects, Thames and Hudson, London, 2018, p. 158.
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