Poster 'Page from a Polier album: Entertainments in a Harem' Size_Paper_L_475_700 Format: 29 x 24

Format: 29 x 24

Wooven in wooland silks

Gauguin and Pont-Aven

inlaid with mother-of-pearl and painted amber beads

Each piece in this collection of brass bibelots is designed and sculpted by Jonathan Adler and his team in Soho studio

Poster 'Page from a Polier album: Entertainments in a Harem' Size_Paper_L_475_700 Format: 29 x 24This poster features a sheet from an album compiled by Colonel Antoine Louis de Polier (17411795), a French Swiss adventurer and collector resident in India in the middle of the 18th century. The front presents a harem scene with a group of women talking and smoking hookahs in the midst of maidservants, musicians and dancers. The structured background is inspired by the Persian art of gardens. The back bears a calligraphic "ghazal" or love poem.