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An Ottoman red-ground calligraphic silk lampas panel, Turkey, 18th century
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description
- silk
Red silk ground divided by horizontal chevrons enclosing dense vigorous bands of muhaqqaq calligraphy, alternating with bands of vase-shaped cartouches flanked by roundels, mounted on board
Catalogue Note
inscriptions
In bands, repetition of:
1). The shahadah
2). Qur'an, surah Al-'Imran, 96.
3). In small cartouches: invocations to God.
4). Qur'an, surah Al-Baqarah (II), parts of 144.
A near-identical eighteenth-century silk lampas is illustrated in P.L.Baker, Islamic Textiles, London, 1995, p.94. Another similar panel, dated to the eighteenth century, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, (see Meisterwerke aus dem Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Berlin, 1991, no.114, pp.268-9). Further examples have sold in these rooms, 7 October 2009, lot 61, and 14 April 2010, lot 46.