A fine Ottoman embroidered yellow-ground bundle wrapper (bohça), Turkey, late 18th/early 19th century

worked with polychrome silk threads with a central design of floral stems in a leafy border with a band of floral stems around the external edge, on a yellow silk ground, mounted on a stretcher

Formed from three panels stitched together, the silk ground with some discoloration in certain areas and with few very light stains, generally bright and colourful, one minor tear near a floral stem with associated consolidation, mounted on stretcher, as viewed.
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See catalogue note for lot 427.