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Lot 56

An Ottoman woven silk lampas-weave Tomb Cover Fragment
Turkey, 18th/ 19th Century

6 October 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £3,125 inc. premium

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An Ottoman woven silk lampas-weave Tomb Cover Fragment
Turkey, 18th/ 19th Century

rectangular, decorated in yellow on a green ground with zig-zag bands containing inscriptions, mounted
102 x 83 cm.

Footnotes

Inscriptions: in the wide band, repeat of the shahadah, in the narrow bands, repeat of Qur'an, chapter III (al-ahzab), verse 56, followed by invocations to God to be satisfied with the four Orthodox Caliphs and the companions, all of them, in the wide band in cartouches, repeat of, ya mannan ya hanan, 'O the Propitious! O the Most Compassionate!'.

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