with embroidered silver and polychrome silk threads (including green, blue, orange, red, yellow, salmon pink) on red velvet ground, featuring a large palmette between scrolls of grapes and carnations, with a foliate border 

Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 9 March 1950.
The Higgins Armoury Museum, Worcester, Mass., 1950-2013

In fair condition, colours bright although most of the red velvet pile is worn and rubbed with associated discoloration, few tears (particularly horizontal) and associated consolidations notably under the central palmette, stitched onto a blue linen cloth (which also contains minor tears and stains), losses to silver threads and fraying to the external edges, as viewed.
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A number of similar Ottoman embroidered saddle covers, some of which ended up in Polish collections following the Battle of Vienna in 1683, are illustrated in Istanbul 1999, pp.198-205, nos.98-102. A further example of how such a saddle cover would be mounted is illustrated in Żygulski 1992, p.145, no.III.59.