Man with daffodils, probably Ottoman Turkey, early 17th century Gouache, ink and gold on paper depicting a man standing three-quarters of the way up, wearing a white turban and a long yellow coat with green lining tied with a lilac sash, with a white scarf with blue braid on his right shoulder. He holds a flower in his left hand and pulls aside a flap of his coat with his right, revealing a pair of red pants. He is standing in a hilly landscape punctuated by tufts of golden grass. Mounted as an album page on green card stock with gold-speckled zarafshan borders and margins. On the spine, pencilled inscription: "71. Coll. The Hon Robert Erskine, Turkey, late 16th century". Painting size: 12.2 x 4.5 cm; page size: 24.6 x 16 cm Some polychromy, some retouching. Supposed provenance: - The Hon, Robert Erskine Collection. - Pierre Bergé & Associés, Paris, June 9, 2011, lot 36. Robert William Hervey Erskine (1930-2024) was a British collector and dealer of antiques, specializing in numismatics. He was also the founder of the St George's Gallery of prints, and is known for the discovery and restoration of the Sophilos dinosaur now in London's British Museum (1971.11-1.1).