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Lot 75W

An Ottoman metal thread-embroidered silk Panel depicting Al-Masjid al-Nabawī or Prophet's Mosque in Medina
Turkey, bearing the tughra of Muhammad V and dated AH 1334/ 1915-16 AD

8 April 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £11,250 inc. premium

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An Ottoman metal thread-embroidered silk Panel depicting Al-Masjid al-Nabawī or Prophet's Mosque in Medina
Turkey, bearing the tughra of Muhammad V and dated AH 1334/ 1915-16 AD

rectangular, the green and red silk ground embroidered in silver and gilt threads with a depiction of the Prophet's Mosque, above two inscription-filled cartouches, below an inscription filled cartouche and a tughra all on a ground of floral sprays and scrolling tendrils, the corners and edged with further inscription filled cartouches, the border with interlaced vines with palmettes, backed
162 x 253.5 cm.

Footnotes

Inscriptions include: the tughra of Sultan Mehmet V (Rashad) with the date 1334 (1915-16); in the top green cartouche a hadith of the prophet, wa ma bayna qabri wa minbari rawdah min riyad al-jannah. 'And between my tomb and pulpit is a garden from/out of the gardens of Paradise'; in the top red cartouche, Qur'an, chapter XXXIII (al-ahzab), verse 56; in the lower red cartouche, Qur'an, chapter XXI (al-anbiya'), verse 107; in the two roundels, a hadith about the Prophet; in the lower corners, "Muhammad is the Messenger of God".

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