A SILK VELVET AND METAL THREAD WOVEN ÇATMA

TURKEY, 17TH CENTURY

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A SILK VELVET AND METAL THREAD WOVEN ÇATMA
TURKEY, 17TH CENTURY
The rectangular panel with deep red velvet ground woven with a central roundel filled with a rosette and star motif within a tulip border, around it four swirling saz leaves filled with hyacinths, the corners each with similar quarter roundels, above and below a band of stylised tulips in an arched arcade
41½ x 25in. (105.5 x 63.4cm.)

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Lot Essay

An almost identical çatma also dated to the 17th century is in the collection of the Sadberk Hanim Museum (inv. 9074-HK. 1469; Hulya Bilgi, Çatma ve Kemha: Ottoman Silk Textiles, Istanbul, 2007, no. 34, pp. 92-3). A Russian Orthodox cope made from a very similar çatma is in the Kremlin Armoury Museum in Moscow (inv. NO.TK-2216; Nurhan Atasoy, Walter B. Denny, Louise W. Mackie and Hülya Tezcan, Ipek: The Crescent and the Rose, London, 2001, fig. 95, p. 212).

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