An Ottoman voided velvet and metal thread Cushion Cover (yastik) Turkey, 17th Century
£2,000 - £3,000
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Cushion-covers (Yastiks) of this type were used to back the low divans or sofas found in Ottoman palaces from the 16th Century onwards.
For a velvet with a similar design, in a private German collection, see C.A. Erber, Wealth of Silk and Velvet: Ottoman Fabrics and Embroideries, Bremen, 2000, pl. 176, no. G. 9/3. Related examples with varying designs are illustrated in Atasoy, N. et al, Ipek: The Crescent and the Rose: Imperial Ottoman Silks and Velvets, London, 2001, pp. 320-321.
Provenance:
Major Richard Rawnsley, Well Vale, Lincolnshire, thence by descent to Mary Fry Fane (1947-2000), Fulbeck Hall, Lincolnshire.
A good deal of the collection at Well vale came to the Rawnsley family from Colonel William Elliott of Gedling Hall, who had apparently assembled an interesting collection during his Grand Tour, when he visited Italy, Greece and possibly Turkey, in the early 19th Century.