OTTOMAN TURKEY, 16TH OR 17TH CENTURY

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AN EMBROIDERED PANEL
OTTOMAN TURKEY, 16TH OR 17TH CENTURY
Woven in three panels, the fine linen ground embroidered with dusty red, pale green and turquoise silk with sinuous vines enclosing bold red palmettes with cintamani motifs above and below, the vines' intersections with green crowns, selvages on all sides, minor restorations
87 x 61in. (221 x 155cm.)

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Lot Essay

An almost identical hanging of very similar size is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (Acc.no. 155-1893). That has been catalogued as 16th century by Marianne Elis and Jennifer Wearden (Ottoman Embroidery, London, 2001, p.16, p.34, pl.4) but dated as 16th or 17th century by Paulin Johnstone (Turkish Embroidery, London, 1985, cat.1, p. 53). An embroidered panel with similar ogival lattice design was sold in these Rooms, 27 October 2022, lot 150.

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