A voided silk velvet metal-thread (catma) panel with vegetal lattice and crowns, Turkey, 16th century
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October 27, 03:41 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
metal threads on a silk cream ground, dark red voided velvet details and ground, with ogival foliate lattice combined with crowns interspersed by combined foliate palmettes, mounted
170 by 62.5cm.
Ex-collection H. Peter Stern (1928-2018).
Lisbet Holmes Textiles, London, 19 January 1984.
Lisbet Holmes Textiles, London, 19 January 1984.
The crown motif linking the vines on this example is so European that scholars at first thought that this confirmed an Italian place of production rather than Turkish. Technically though, these textiles are firmly grounded in an Ottoman manufacturing style. Two loom widths, probably from the same cloth, are in the Musees Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels, inv. no.1200-1/2 (Atasoy 2001, pp.136-7, no.89).
A velvet panel with the same design was sold in these rooms, The Berkeley Trust Collection, 12 October 2004, lot 39. The catalogue note relates to a 'brocade' with the same motif worn by Johann Cuspinian (d.1529) in a portrait by Bernard Strigel (d.1528) providing a dating terminus ante-quem of the sixteenth century.
A velvet panel with the same design was sold in these rooms, The Berkeley Trust Collection, 12 October 2004, lot 39. The catalogue note relates to a 'brocade' with the same motif worn by Johann Cuspinian (d.1529) in a portrait by Bernard Strigel (d.1528) providing a dating terminus ante-quem of the sixteenth century.
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