Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs & Carpets
Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs & Carpets
A VOIDED SILK VELVET METAL-THREAD (CATMA) PANEL WITH VEGETAL LATTICE AND CROWNS, TURKEY, 16TH CENTURY
Auction Closed
June 10, 06:00 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A VOIDED SILK VELVET METAL-THREAD (CATMA) PANEL WITH VEGETAL LATTICE AND CROWNS, TURKEY, 16TH CENTURY
metal threads on a silk cream ground, dark red voided velvet details and ground, with ogival foliate lattice combined with crowns interspersed by combined foliate palmettes, mounted
170 by 62.5cm.
Please note: Condition 9 of the Conditions of Business for Buyers for this sale is not applicable to this lot.
Lisbet Holmes Textiles, London, 19 January 1984.
The crown motif linking the vines on this example is so European that scholars at first thought that this confirmed an Italian place of production rather than Turkish. Technically though, these textiles are firmly grounded in an Ottoman manufacturing style. Two loom widths, probably from the same cloth, are in the Musees Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels, inv. no. 1200-1/2 (Atasoy 2001, pp.136-7, no. 89).
A velvet panel with the same design was sold in these rooms, Sotheby's Berkeley Trust Collection, 12 October 2004, lot 39. The catalogue note relates to a 'brocade' with the same motif worn by Johann Cuspinian (d. 1529) in a portrait by Bernard Strigel (d. 1528) providing a dating ante-quem to the sixteenth century.