silk panel comprised of three joined vertical panels, worked with applique silver to gold metal–tinsel, with a repeat pattern of scattered multi-blossom sprig, with a four-sided border with the same pattern, all against a cerise silk ground, mounted onto complementary cerise velvet textile and attached to stretcher

The colours are tonally good colour match with the printed catalogue. In reality the metal thread used for the motifs gives the panel more depth in reality visually and a little sparkle against the silk satin. Silk panel comprised of three joined vertical panels (24.5cm wide, 52cm wide, and 51.5cm. wide respectively). The left-vertical panel has a horizontal join across the centre as visible in the photograph. The cerise-ground has some surface watermarks visible as dark spots, for example, top-left corner of main field to edge of one of tri-foliate motifs and others within the main field which are not as obvious. There is a small round hole to far-right side towards top-right corner visible as small dark spot. Oxidisation to all silver-thread which predominates the motifs overall, despite this oxidisation, design is still very attractive. Very decorative panel.
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For a comparable of a fragment of a cushion cover (yastik), seventeenth/eighteenth century, Turkey, probably Bursa, in the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin, (Inv. no. tex 18), see (Erber 1993, pp.250-251, S 9/2), and a similarly worked bohça panel, first half eighteenth century (98 by 92cm) in the Sadberk Hanim Museum Collectiom, Istanbul (Inv. no. SMH 1662-I.865) (Bilgi and Zanbak 2012, pp.92-93, no.17).