Lot 257
Two Ottoman painted wood Panels Northern Greece, 18th Century(2)
10 April 2008, 14:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£3,500 - £4,500
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Northern Greece, 18th Century
Northern Greece, 18th Century
each rectangular-shaped panel painted in polychrome on a blue ground with a frieze containing a floral spray issuing from a ewer within a vase flanked by peaches and quince
136 x 40 cm., 133 x 43 cm.(2)
136 x 40 cm., 133 x 43 cm.(2)
Footnotes
Such panels, known as messandra, were made in sets of five or seven and were used to decorated the main reception room (onda) of country houses in the western Ottoman provinces of Northern Greece. The motifs are traditional and appear in prosperous merchant houses of the period from Greece, Turkey and Syria.
For other examples and a discussion on such houses, see Dimitris Philippides, Greek Design and Decoration: Three Centuries of Architectural Style, Athens, 2003, p. 53, the Manousis mansion, Kastoria and p.192, the Aivazis mansion, Kastoria.