Lot 328
- 328
An Ottoman silk and metal thread brocade panel (Kemha), Turkey, circa 1575
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Description
- Silk
woven with green, red, blue, cream silk and metal threads, with a lattice of offset ovals with upright saz flanked by rosette stems and hyacinth sprays, enclosed by palmette border, against a gold ground of cloudband scrolls
Catalogue Note
kehma panels of identical design are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Musée Historique des Tissus, Lyons (see Atasoy, Denny, Mackie & Tezcan 2001, pp.214-215, figs. 98 & 99).