An Ottoman embroidery with tulips and pomegranates on cotton hand-weave, Turkey, 17th/18th century

Paul Ispenian, Cairo and Paris, first half 20th century.

A similar embroidered panel with comparable colour scheme is now in the Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin, inv. no.97,58; published in the frontispiece of R. Taylor, Ottoman Embroidery, New York, 1993. Another, presenting a similar motif is in the Topkapi Saray Museum, published in Celăl, Tűrk Işlemeleri, Istanbul, 1939, pp.28-29.