A Sultana Taking Coffee — Guardi Tapestry Blanket
A Sultana Taking Coffee — Guardi Tapestry Blanket
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This exotic interior scene by Giovanni Antonio Guardi (1699–1760) reflects the 18th-century European fascination with the imagined luxury of the Ottoman world, showing a sultana taking coffee within an elaborately imagined harem setting. Guardi, who ran a busy Venice workshop alongside his brothers, painted genre and decorative scenes like this one for private Venetian patrons captivated by tales and depictions of the East, part of the popular taste for “turquerie” in 18th-century European art and design.
Jacquard-woven in soft, durable cotton — a warm, fully reversible throw for the sofa, bed or reading chair.
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My whole family has opinions about the house and everyone agreed on this one. The shading in A Sultana Taking Coffee has a depth I never noticed in books. It has beaten every expectation I had.
I have bought a lot of art online and this is the first time it looked exactly like the listing. I have been hunting for a good version of A Sultana Taking Coffee for two years. It washed up beautifully on cold and came out looking new. It suits an old brick house better than anything I found at the stores around Atlanta.
My order came a day early, which never happens. The subject of A Sultana Taking Coffee is what sold me, and it delivers. The listing photos were honest, which is rarer than it should be. The pollen coats everything here in April and this wiped clean without a mark. I am pleased with how this turned out.
Four stars because it is excellent and I paid a little more than I wanted to. The color choices Guardi made in A Sultana Taking Coffee come through clearly.
Everyone who walks in asks about it. The clarity of A Sultana Taking Coffee makes it look like the original was photographed yesterday. The tones are deep and even across the entire surface. It arrived a full day ahead of the estimate.