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Lot 145

A pair of metal-thread embroidered leather Ottoman slippers
Turkey, 19th Century
(2)

25 October 2021, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£3,000 - £5,000

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A pair of metal-thread embroidered leather Ottoman slippers
Turkey, 19th Century

of red leather with brown leather soles, embroidered in silver and gilt-silver thread with a large palmette motif
24.6 cm. long(2)

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Provenance
William Hook Morley (1815-1860)
Laidlaw Auctioneers, 29 September 2018, lot 526.

William Hook Morley was a trustee and librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society. In 1838, he discovered a missing manuscript of the Jami' al-tawarikh of Rashid-al-Din Hamdani. His published works include A Catalogue of the Historical Manuscripts in the Arabic and Persian Languages (in possession of the Royal Asiatic Society), London 1854, and a description of a planispheric astrolabe made for the Sultan Husayn (reg. 1694-1722) in 1854.

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