OTTOMAN TURKEY, 17TH CENTURY

A similar panel, dated to the late 16th or early 17th century is in a German private collection, exhibited in 2011 at the LA Mayer Museum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem. In the catalogue that accompanied that exhibition, Gisela Helmecke remarks upon the density of pattern and the strong colours as features that create a striking effect, something clearly apparent in the impressive panels offered here (Gisela Helmecke, Splendour of Colour, Shimmer of Silk. Embroidery of the Ottoman Empire, exhibition catalogue, Jerusalem, 2010, no.7, p.9). Another similar textile recently sold at Christie's, South Kensington, 27 April 2012, lot 818.