Lot 235
235
AN OTTOMAN VOIDED SILK VELVET AND METAL THREAD PANEL
Property from a Japanese Collection
AN OTTOMAN VOIDED SILK VELVET AND METAL THREAD PANEL

PROBABLY BURSA, TURKEY, 17TH CENTURY

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AN OTTOMAN VOIDED SILK VELVET AND METAL THREAD PANEL
PROBABLY BURSA, TURKEY, 17TH CENTURY
Of near square form, the red velvet ground decorated with rows of large rosettes filled with small flowerheads issuing green and red leaves, the large rosettes joined by small green quatrefoils with red accents and alternated by smaller rosettes which each issue two trefoil pendants, the panel shortened in the middle, losses to the corners
27 3/8 x 25¾in. (69.5 x 65cm.)

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Lot Essay

The eight-pointed medallion was a popular pattern on velvets woven in Bursa between the 16th and 18th centuries. Because it was the vertical and horizontal symmetry it allowed for simple programmed repeat, which could be used for a wide variety of functions. A number of comparable variations on the design are published in Nurhan Atasoy, Walter B. Denny, Louise W. Mackie and Hülya Tezcan, Ipek. The Crescent & the Rose, London, 2001, figs.332-335 and 349-355, pp.312-13 and 318-19.

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