Ottoman Silk Lampas (Kaftan Section) Decorated With Tulips And Saz Leaves

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Ottoman Silk Lampas (Kaftan Section) Decorated With Tulips And Saz Leaves

Ottoman Empire
16^th Century
Dimensions: 74 x 40 cm.

Imperial Ottoman silk kaftan section decorated with symmetrically arranged tulips on saz leaves surrounded by flower heads.

The saz leaf seen on the present silk kaftan section is an important motif frequently used by the artists employed in the Ottoman court studio. The first representative of the saz style at the Ottoman palace was Şahkulu, an artist brought from Tabriz by Sultan Selim I (r. 1512-1520). This style was a departure from the classical miniature painting, characterised by pictures drawn with a brush in black ink, featuring long pointed leaves, giving birth to the term ‘saz leaf’. Paintings in the saz style may remind a thick forest with intertwined curved leaves and khatai blossoms.

A comparable silk decorated with tulips and saz leaves, intended for a kaftan, is in the textile museum Abegg-Stifftung, Riggisberg-Berne (Inv. No. 345). Please see, Nurhan Atasoy, et al. İpek – The Crescent & the Rose: Imperial Ottoman Silks and Velvets, Azimuth Editions, London, 2001, p. 284, pl. 245.

A closely related 16th century kaftan, associated with Prince Ahmed (future Sultan Ahmed I, r. 1603-1617), in the Topkapi Palace Museum, Istanbul, is published in J. M. Rogers, Hülya Tezcan, Selma Delibaş. Topkapı – Costumes, Embroideries and other Textiles, Thames and Hudson, London, 1986, pl. 29.

Provenance

Ex-Charles Ratton Collection, Paris.
Exhibited in the International Sesquicentennial Exposition (World Fair, Philadelphia) in 1926 which was organized to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the independence of USA.

Charles Ratton (1895-1986)

Born in 1895, Charles Ratton was a world-famous art collector, expert and dealer who was a famous defender of art from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Oceania. He gained an art history degree from the Ecole du Louvre in Paris. In the early years of his studies, he was interested in the art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. By the 1920s he became interested in tribal art. Ratton was granted a dealer’s license in 1927. He founded his business at his apartment on rue de Marignan. In the 1930s he organised several important exhibitions. He became close friends with Andre Breton, Tristan Tzara and Paul Eluard. In 1936 he held and exhibition of surrealist works at his gallery. He played an important role in the formation of the US market in tribal art. He passed away in 1986. For further information please see, Gareth Harris, ‘Tribute to a Tastemaker: Charles Ratton’, Financial Times, 19 July 2013.

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