An Ottoman tortoiseshell and mother-of-pearl inlaid wood scribe's table Turkey, 17th/ 18th CenturyAn Ottoman tortoiseshell and mother-of-pearl inlaid wood scribe's table Turkey, 17th/ 18th Centuryof rectangular form on four bracket feet with one drawer to the front, decorated in mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell, bone and metal inlay with geometric designs, a tooled leather inset to the top with a border of foliate motifs 63.1 x 32.7 x 31.6 cm.A similar example of a 17th Century Ottoman scribe's desk is in the British Museum (1991,0717.2). For an example sold at Christie's, see Ottoman & Orientalist, 21 June 2000, lot 87.