PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTION
AN OTTOMAN METAL-THREAD EMBROIDERED RED-GROUND SADDLE COVER, TURKEY, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Auction Closed
October 27, 04:55 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTION
AN OTTOMAN METAL-THREAD EMBROIDERED RED-GROUND SADDLE COVER, TURKEY, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY
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
171 by 155cm. max.
Sold in these rooms, 26 April 2017, lot 207.
The Higgins Armoury Museum, Worcester, Mass., 1950-2013.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 9 March 1950.
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.