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Two Ottoman embroidered towels,
Estimate
800 - 1,200 USD
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Description
- Two Ottoman embroidered towels
- approximately 5ft. 11in. by 1ft. 4in. (1.80 by 0.41m.) and 2ft. 9in. by 1ft. 5in. (0.84 by 0.43m.) (2)
worked in silk and metal thread embroidery at each end, one towel with tulips and the other depicting houses
Catalogue Note
For other Turkish towels unusually emboidered with houses and other buildings, see Ellis, Marianne, and Jennifer Wearden, Ottoman Embroidery, London, 2001, figs. 146-147.