An Ottoman silk and metal-thread embroidered panel, possibly a saddle cloth, with split palmettes, Turkey, 16th/17th century
Auction Closed
March 30, 12:47 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
embroidered polychrome silk and metal threads on a silk ground, backed on linen
75 by 99cm.
Paul Ispenian, Cairo and Paris, first half 20th century.
The Unity of Islamic Art, Islamic Art Gallery: King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1985.
E. Atil and O. Hoare (eds.), The Unity of Islamic Art, Islamic Art Gallery: King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1985, pp.186-7, no.164.
For a comparable textile, see Y. Petsopoulos (ed.), Tulips, Arabesques & Turbans: Decorative Arts from the Ottoman Empire, 1982, no.150 and Replica Shoes 's, An Eye for Opulence: Art of the Ottoman Empire, 24 April 2012, lot 221.
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