An Ottoman Metal-Thread Embroidered Saddle Cover, Turkey, 19th century

of characteristic form, the red-velvet rectangular panel with crescent-form motif to each corner, the remainder of the cover embroidered in metal-thread stylised flowers

Overall in good condition. some loss of colour to the thread on the body of the cover, the central red velvet panel a later replacement with the corner motifs reapplied, some fraying to the metal thread, as viewed.
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For examples of Ottoman saddle clothes captured at the seige of Vienna in 1683, see Die Karlsruher Türkenbeute, Munich, 1991, pp.95-140.