Ottoman Empire, Circa 1683, Dimensions: 190 x 344 cm. On red cotton background, mixed silk fabrics, in hemmed appliqué technique, with a dense floral infilling in red, orange, yellow, green and cream. Two elements are borrowed from Ottoman architecture: arched columns and windows. These architectural elements are profusely decorated with carnations, tulips, floral sprays in […]
Rare and Important Indian Talismanic Shirt (Jama) With Qur’anic Verses and the Jawshan Al-kabeer – SOLD
North India or the Deccan, 17th-18th Century, Heigth: 72 cm., Width: 99.5 cm. Cotton shirt inscribed with Qur’anic suras and the Jawshan al-Kabeer prayer in red and blue thuluth, red ghubar script, written in large panels on a green ground to arms, shoulders and lower section to front, reverse with large, symmetrically arranged foliate decoration on green […]