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An embroidered cover, composed of four joined panels of fine linen worked in silks with a bold blue lattice of ogival medallions, each worked with stylised tulips, carnations and daisies against a red and white spotted ground and surrounded by a wreath of further flowers, the borders with small blue and red medallions interspersed with flowersprays--84in. x 66in. (213cm x 165cm), Ottoman, probably Yannina, Epirus, circa 1700, centre reduced, damages and restoration
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An embroidered cover, composed of four joined panels of fine linen worked in silks with a bold blue lattice of ogival medallions, each worked with stylised tulips, carnations and daisies against a red and white spotted ground and surrounded by a wreath of further flowers, the borders with small blue and red medallions interspersed with flowersprays--84in. x 66in. (213cm x 165cm), Ottoman, probably Yannina, Epirus, circa 1700, centre reduced, damages and restoration
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拍品专文
For a comparable bocha see Tulips, Arabesques and Turbans, ed. Yanni Petsopoulos, London 1982. An embroidery with similar escutcheons is illustrated in Ottoman Embroidery, Roderick Taylor, London, 1993, page 82