An Ottoman voided silk velvet and metal-thread panel with petalled lobes enclosing carnations and tulips, Turkey, 17th century

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

A comparable example, donated by Alexei Ivanovich Shein (d.1700), a courtier during the reign of Tsar Fyodor III, Tsarevna Sophia and Peter the Great, to a monastery in 1652, is illustred in N. Atasoy and W. Denny, IPEK. The Crescent & the Rose: Imperial Ottoman Silks and Velvets, 2001, p.248, no.48. Another is published in D. King, Imperial Ottoman Textiles, Colnaghi, 1980, p.30, no.13.