Lot 125
An Ottoman voided velvet panel Turkey, Bursa, second half of the 16th/ early 17th Century
25 October 2021, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£8,000 - £12,000
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An Ottoman voided velvet panel
Turkey, Bursa, second half of the 16th/ early 17th Century
Turkey, Bursa, second half of the 16th/ early 17th Century
of rectangular form, with gold thread and crimson pile,
composed of two conjoined loom widths, depicting a large scale curvilinear lattice formed by a double stem clasped by coronets, enclosing two types of thistle, one made up of a tulip and carnation, with saz leaves at the base of each plant, mounted
170 x 129 cm.
composed of two conjoined loom widths, depicting a large scale curvilinear lattice formed by a double stem clasped by coronets, enclosing two types of thistle, one made up of a tulip and carnation, with saz leaves at the base of each plant, mounted
170 x 129 cm.
Footnotes
This textile is clearly derived from the patterns of Italian silks and velvets of the 15th and 16th Centuries, but differs in a number of respects: the Ottoman designer has simplified the Italian model, eliminating details and reducing the three-dimensional effects of the original to flat silhouettes. The bolder result is characteristic of the best Ottoman large-scale pattern weaving of the 16th Century.
For another panel of identical design formerly in the Baron Edmond de Rothschild collection, see Donald King, Imperial Ottoman Textiles, London, 1980, p. 14, no.1, and later sold at Sotheby's (Sotheby's, Arts of the Islamic World, 12th October 2004, lot 39). Two further panels were illustrated by Migeon (Gaston Migeon and Jules Guiffrey, La Collection Kelekian: Etoffes et Tapis d'Orient et de Venise, Paris,n.d., pl. 83) and Errera (Isabelle Errera, Catalogue d'etoffes anciennes et modernes, Brussels, 1927, no. 222), although both erroneously attribute the panels to Italy. Otto von Falke first recognised their Ottoman Origin, noting that one of the large thistle-heads is actually a characteristically Ottoman tulip and carnation (Otto von Falke, Kunstgeschichte der Seidenweberei, 1913, Vol. II, p. 142).