Description:
In english. Hard cover, 29 cm, 288 pp., ill.: 500 colour photographs.An interdisciplinary reading of 19th century ornamented trays and their complex (hi)stories, set in the context of the last, glittering days of the Ottoman Empire. This book focuses on a group of fascinating, multi-faceted century objects from the field of the decorative and applied arts: the ornamented trays produced during the Indian summer of the japanning industry in Europe, which are today prized treasures of private and museum collections in Greece and Turkey.
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