Ottoman Empire First Half of the 17th Century Dimensions: 158 x 130 cm. Cut crimson velvet on a silk warp-faced cream ground with six stacked vertical rows of eight-lobed blossoms emanating further foliate details, [...]
Ottoman Empire, Palace Workshop 17th Century Dimensions: 116 x 49.5 cm. Cream compound silk-cotton cloth, embroidered in coloured silks, with a blue şemse (shamsa) medallion with carnations in the centre, surrounded [...]
Ottoman Empire 16th 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 [...]
Ottoman Empire 17th Century Dimensions: 270 x 64 cm. Woven with ogival medallions (şemse) arranged in offset rows which form an infinitely repeating pattern, decorated with pomegranates, surrounded by spring [...]
Ottoman Empire 18th Century Dimensions: 117 x 58 cm. Woven with a border running around a central şemse medallion in metal-thread against a red velvet ground. Stylized medallion motifs are known as şemse in [...]
17th Century Probably Florence The ‘a griccia’ design on this ceremonial Italian velvet, probably from Florence, is closely related to the long-sleeved, short ceremonial kaftan, associated with Sultan Mehmed IV (r. [...]
Ottoman Empire 18th Century Dimensions: 112 x 112 cm. Silk cover decorated with embroidered spring flowers and with metal-wrapped thread. This richly embroidered ceremonial cover was probably used during religious [...]
