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Lot 70

A fine Ottoman metal-thread embroidered silk Panel
Turkey, late 18th Century/ early 19th Century

23 April 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£10,000 - £15,000

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A fine Ottoman metal-thread embroidered silk Panel
Turkey, late 18th Century/ early 19th Century

rectangular, the yellow silk ground embroidered in polychrome silks and metal thread with a repeat design of floral sprays, the borders with an undulating floral vine, mounted
124.9 x 131 cm.

Footnotes

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.

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