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Name of Object:

Boot

Location:

Vienna, Austria

Holding Museum:

Kunsthistorisches Museum

About Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Date of Object:

Hegira 10th century / AD 16th century

Museum Inventory Number:

KK_5387

Material(s) / Technique(s):

Leather, gold, bronze, silver

Dimensions:

Height: 60cm

Period / Dynasty:

Ottoman

Provenance:

Turkey?

Description:

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.

How date and origin were established:

Arthistorical and historical analysis, archival and inventory research

How Object was obtained:

Collection Ambras Castle

How provenance was established:

Probably Ambras Castle AD 1596; 1875 Ambr. Sammlg., XV, 78a, S. 320; 1869 aus Ambras (Verz. d. Tauschobjekte Nr. 64)

Selected bibliography:

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.

Citation of this web page:

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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