An Ottoman Palace-Quality Silk and Metal-Thread Table-Cover, Turkey, circa 1800

of round form, consisting of a rich purple velvet background designed in maraş style with gold and silver metal threads depicting a palatial garden house and fountain amongst a lush landscape of floral stems, with an outer gold fringe, mounted on a canvas with a silk background and protected by a plexiglass screen

In overall very good condition, minor loss to some of the metal threads and discoloration consistent with age, few repaired threads on outer fringe, as viewed.
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The present table-cover can be compared with a very similar embroidered red velvet ceremonial coffee cover in the Sadberk Hanim Museum (inv. no.3038-I.417) from the nineteenth century, (Illustrated in N. Atasoy., Splendors of the Ottoman Sultans, The Memphis International Cultural Series, 1992, p.259).