An Ottoman velvet and silver-thread wallet, Turkey, 17th century
Auction Closed
October 25, 04:59 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
the leather body of rectangular form with folding cover and two compartments, the front one with its own flap, the outer body covered in velvet and embroidered with silver thread with stylised floral design, the hemlines sewn with silver, yellow and blue threads
11.7 by 19cm.
Two letter wallets dated to the seventeenth century and covered in similar crimson velvet are in the Sadberk Hanim Museum (inv. no.SHM 1867-I.1705) and the Omer M. Koc Collection (see Bilgi 2022, cat. no.3&4, pp.54-59). Another seventeenth century wallet from the latter collection presents the same distinctive curved flap profile as the present example, a design which persisted into the eighteenth century.
The decoration of this wallet also relates to that of a seventeenth century Ottoman saddle in the Badisches Landesmuseum Kalsruhe (inv. no.D151, published in E. Petrasch, Die Karlsruher Türkenbeute, Munchen, 1991, pp.126-8).
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