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£10,000 - £15,000
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This finely embroidered and preserved silk panel was probably used as a bohca or wrapping cloth. Some were made purely to wrap domestic items and others as travelling cushions. The present example is particularly elaborate being made of silk, since bohca are usually made from linen and cotton. For a further discussion of this type of textile, see Taylor, Roderick, Ottoman Embroidery, London, 1993, pp. 113-22.