rectangular, the rich crimson silk ground woven with silver thread, the overall design composed of two overlapping ogival lattices, the lower with stems bearing pomegranate fruits, the upper with an interlacing rope with palmette-filled flowerheads, the interspaces in-filled with meandering floral and foliate stems of pomegranates and hibiscus flowers, mounted
143 x 64 cm.

Footnotes

Provenance:
Vitall Benguiat, Florence; French & co, New York; Vojtech Blau, New York; Private collection, Antwerp; London art market, from where it was acquired by the present owner circa 1987.

The detailed and naturalistic depiction and, indeed, many elements of the pattern are adapted from Italian designs.

The silver thread has worn in areas of this velvet, exposing the yellow silk wefts. This yellow was probably dyed from saffron, crocus sativus.

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A fine Ottoman metal thread silk Velvet Bursa, 16th Century

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