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Lot 248

An Ottoman silk brocade Panel
Turkey, 17th/18th Century

29 April 2004, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £2,270.50 inc. premium

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An Ottoman silk brocade Panel
Turkey, 17th/18th Century

of irregular form, with three bands of inscription in cream in reserve on a green ground
31.5 x 60 cm. max.

Footnotes

The inscriptions include: "There is no god, but The God, Muhammad is The Messenger of God"; Qur’an, surat al-ahzab (XXXIII), 56; and the call to God to bless Muhammad, his family and his companions and grant them salvation.

For other examples, see Walter Denny, "Textiles" in Yanni Petsopoulos (ed.), Tulips, Arabesques and Turbans: Decorative Arts from the Ottoman Empire, London, 1982, pp. 121-168, no. 158; and Antony Welch, Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World, Austin, 1979, no. 34.

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