Lot 248
An Ottoman silk brocade Panel Turkey, 17th/18th Century
29 April 2004, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £2,270.50 inc. premium
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Turkey, 17th/18th Century
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.
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.