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Boot
Vienna, Austria
Kunsthistorisches Museum
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Hegira 10th century / AD 16th century
KK_5387
Leather, gold, bronze, silver
Height: 60cm
Ottoman
Turkey?
The leg of each boot is decorated with floral and geometrical designs cut into the leather and then pressed up or out from the inside to appear in relief like repoussé work. Dyed dark brown, these details are set off by the punched yellow-brown leather of the boots.
Arthistorical and historical analysis, archival and inventory research
Collection Ambras Castle
Probably Ambras Castle AD 1596; 1875 Ambr. Sammlg., XV, 78a, S. 320; 1869 aus Ambras (Verz. d. Tauschobjekte Nr. 64)
Sandbichler, Veronika, Türkische Kostbarkeiten aus dem Kunsthistorischen Museum Wien, exh. cat., Wien: Kunsthistorisches Museum, 1997.
Scheicher, Elisabeth et al. (eds), Kunsthistorisches Museum Sammlungen Schloss Ambras. Die Kunstkammer, Innsbruck: Kunsthistorisches Museum, 1977.
Seipel, Wilfried (ed), Dracula. Woiwode und Vampir, exh. cat., Wien: Kunsthistorisches Museum, 2008.
Veronika Sandbichler, Thomas Kuster "Boot" in Explore Islamic Art Collections. Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;at;Mus22;36;en
Prepared by: Veronika Sandbichler, Thomas Kuster
Copyedited by: Liz Cooper
MWNF Working Number: AT2 36
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