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Sweden Surrenders Unique Ottoman Art

06 Wednesday Nov 2013

Posted by StudiesIslamica in Arts - Collections - Sweden

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The Swedish National Museum has lost its appeal to keep a ‘unique collection’ of Turkish art from the 1700s in Sweden, as a court ruling opened the door for the London-based heir to sell off some 100 Ottoman portraits and landscapes piecemeal. The collection was pieced together by two brothers, sent to what was then Constantinople to represent Sweden. It includes portraits from the Ottoman court but also of landscapes, and was kept by the Celsing family in latter years at Biby Manour near Eskilstuna, in central Sweden.

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