An Ottoman silk and metal-thread brocaded textile hanging, Turkey, late 18th/early 19th century

of rectangular form, embroidered with a central rectangular panel containing a mirorr image with birds and foliate wreaths designed with polychrome coloured and metal threads on black velvet ground, surrounded by dense, entwined foliate designs, with a border

The textile with brown velvet remnants to edges of design, some tears and associated restoration and staining, re-mounted, metal-threads missing in sections, revealing the card to underside of designs, tears to colourful silk highlights on border, re-lined to edges, set on a linen backing, we would advise consulting a professional restorer for further advice on conservation, as viewed.
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This richly embroidered hanging would once have decorated the interior of a home of the Ottoman elite, and admired during social gatherings. For comparable textiles in the Topkapi Palace Museum, see Topkapi - Costumes, Embroideries and Other Textiles, London, 1986.