TWO EMBROIDERED 'BOHÇA' PANELS, OTTOMAN, 17TH CENTURY AND LATER

TWO EMBROIDERED 'BOHÇA' PANELS, OTTOMAN, 17TH CENTURY AND LATER

both worked in silk on linen, with foliate motifs with main field and the four-sided border, the early example with large and small palmette motif, the 19th century example with spherical floral or fruit motif, interspersed with single leaf motifs and small white flower and leaf motif

one approximately: 139 by 137cm, the other: 101 by 98cm.; 4ft. 6¼in. by 4ft. 6in. and 3ft. 3¼in. by 3ft. 2½in.