© Ashmolean Museum
Ottoman velvet textile
Artist: Turkish
Location: Ashmolean Museum
Date: 1600
Materials: silk, metal thread
Dimensions: 166 x 123 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £15,000 (Total: £35,000)
Vendor: Francesca Galloway
Review number: 4909 (2001)
Provenance:
Made in Turkey; Joseph Soustiel, Baron Louis Brincard.
Description:
A large cover decorated with six alternate rows of carnation flowers, each petal enclosing a smaller carnation or a tulip. Perhaps used in a courtly context as a wall hanging, or more usually as a floor spread or cushion covers. Width of two looms.
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