FIRMAN IN THE CIPHER OF SULTAN 'ABD AL-'AZIZ (R. 1861-1876) - Lot 68

FIRMAN IN THE CIPHER OF SULTAN 'ABD AL-'AZIZ (R. 1861-1876) Constantinople, Ottoman Turkey, dated 12 Jumada II 1285 H / September 30, 1868 In Ottoman Turkish, the tughra in bronze ink, copied on two sheets of assembled Venetian paper, one with a watermark of a crescent moon with a human face, the second with a watermark of an eagle with spread wings accompanied by the GFA countermark, the five-line text in a hurried divani written alternately in black and red ink, dated at the end, folds. Size: 73 x 50 cm. Provenance Private collection of Emanuele Pantanella, decorated with the Légion d'honneur for a major donation to the Musée du Louvre. Sale Pierre Bergé & Associés, June 17, 2010, lot 7 A Firman of Sultan Abdulaziz (r.1861-76), Ottoman Turkey, Dated 12 Jumada II 1285 H/30 September 1868