OTTOMAN BURSA, TURKEY, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY

A closely related çatma, in a private collection, is published by Nurhan Atasoy, Walter B. Denny, Louise W. Mackie and Hülya Tezcan in Ipek. The Crescent & The Rose, attributed there to the late 17^th century (Istanbul, 2001, fig.337, p.314). The authors there describe how the serrated palmette was one of the most popular categories of design among Bursa velvet weavers, and state that it is rarer to see the palmettes contained within the ogival lattice, as here, than it is to have them in a free-floating format. Another çatma of similar design and dated to the mid-17th century is in the Sadberk Hanim Museum (inv. no. 15388-D.224; illustrated Hulya Bilgi, Catma et Kemha: Ottoman Silk Textiles, Istanbul, 1997, no. 27, p.78-79).