the deep red voided velvet on a dark ivory silk ground, with vestiges of metal thread wrapping, dark olive green velvet highlights, featuring stylised palmettes with carnations and tulips, mounted and set in box frame with glass

Colour in reality not as dark as in the printed catalogue photograph, but lighter and more subtle cerise hue. A full loom width (approx. 45cm.), set into wooden mounted frame, and glazed. With satin silk crimson backing (18th century), horizontal split across top exposing woven textile, the textile in generally faded condition, some oxidisation to green areas of pile creating a more delicate design, cerise pile in overall good condition with some losses down to foundation in extreme top-left corner. Some minor areas of cerise detailing within palmettes with slightly lower pile. The metal thread wrapping of the ivory coloured ground now mainly gone; the silk core with numerous areas of later consolidation stitching stabilising the foundation. Would benefit from re-mounting in the future, according to taste. Striking fragment of evocative repeat motif.
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For a comparable design in an exceptionally fine quality two-loom width panel, (167 by 133cm), see Sotheby’s, London, 24 April 2012, lot 125, and a (çatma) cushion cover (minder), Bursa or Istanbul, (131 by 63cm), early seventeenth century, Sotheby’s, London, 24 October 2007, lot 372.

A very similar two loom width fragment, first half seventeenth century, Bursa, is in the Deutsches Textilmuseum, Krefeld (Inv. no. 16233), 176 by 130cm, (Erber 1993: G 10/3, pp.182-3), and a (çatma) cushion cover (minder), first half seventeenth century, with the carnation and tulip stem details within the carnation petals is in the Topkapi Palace Museum, Istanbul inv. no. 13/1467 (Gürsu 1988: no. 192, p.172). For further information see the footnote to lot 140.