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An Ottoman red-ground calligraphic silk textile, Turkey, 17th-18th century
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description
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fragment of rectangular form woven with cream and red silks with alternating major and minor chevron bands filled with calligraphy, palmette cartouches and roundels
Catalogue Note
inscriptions
The inscriptions in the large bands are:
The shahadah and invocations to God
In the smaller bands
Qur'an, chapters iii (Al-'Imran), verse 96 and II (al-Baqarah), part of verse 144.
Fragments with the same loom pattern are in the Victoria & Albert Museum, The Textile Museum, Washington and The David Collection, Copenhagen. A complete piece can be found on one of the sarcophagi in the türbe of Sultan Süleyman in Istanbul (see Petsopoulos 1982, p.183, no.160).
The inscriptions in the large bands are:
The shahadah and invocations to God
In the smaller bands
Qur'an, chapters iii (Al-'Imran), verse 96 and II (al-Baqarah), part of verse 144.
Fragments with the same loom pattern are in the Victoria & Albert Museum, The Textile Museum, Washington and The David Collection, Copenhagen. A complete piece can be found on one of the sarcophagi in the türbe of Sultan Süleyman in Istanbul (see Petsopoulos 1982, p.183, no.160).