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A SUPERB LINEN SASH
OTTOMAN, CIRCA 1800
embroidered in silk and metal thread with a frieze of a ladies in pink and blue kaftans, each with silver frogging and gilt conical hat, double sided
20 x 64 in. (50 x 162 cm.)
Sale room notice
Please note that this lot measures 20 in. (50 cm.) in width and 64 in. (162 cm.) in length.

Lot Essay

The costumes depicted here seem to be comparable to, for example, 17th century prints, such as the one illustrated on page 41, Court & Conquest, taken from a 19th century print of a 17th century engraving of a 'Demoiselle Turque' in turn taken from Nicolas de Nicolay's Navigations.

It is interesting to look too at pages 100-101, Embroidery of the Greek Islands and Epirus Region by Sumur Belger Krody, Textile Museum, 2006, which illustrates several examples of embroidered figures in frogged robes. Although the embroidery techniques are quite different, it may be that the design vocabulary of this part of the Ottoman Empire are showing (in chiarascura) in this sophisticated urban embroidery.

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