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Auction archive: Lot number 24

AN OTTOMAN SILK AND METAL-THREAD CURTAIN, WITH TUGHRA OF SULTAN 'ABD A...

Estimate
£50,000 - £70,000
ca. US$73,481 - US$102,874
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 24

AN OTTOMAN SILK AND METAL-THREAD CURTAIN, WITH TUGHRA OF SULTAN 'ABD A...

Estimate
£50,000 - £70,000
ca. US$73,481 - US$102,874
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

An Ottoman silk and metal-thread curtain, with tughra of Sultan 'Abd al-Majid (r. A.H. 1255-77/ A.D. 1839-61) of rectangular form, the green ground applied with red and yellow-green panels embroidered with silver and silver-gilt metal threads, with central inscription flanked by spiralling columns and surrounded by twirling floral and foliate motifs over the tughra of Sultan 'Abd al-Majid, with two calligraphic central roundels and curved cartouches, framed by a floral pattern on an alternating red and yellow-green ground 287 by 176cm.

Auction archive: Lot number 24
Auction:
Datum:
1 Apr 2009
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

An Ottoman silk and metal-thread curtain, with tughra of Sultan 'Abd al-Majid (r. A.H. 1255-77/ A.D. 1839-61) of rectangular form, the green ground applied with red and yellow-green panels embroidered with silver and silver-gilt metal threads, with central inscription flanked by spiralling columns and surrounded by twirling floral and foliate motifs over the tughra of Sultan 'Abd al-Majid, with two calligraphic central roundels and curved cartouches, framed by a floral pattern on an alternating red and yellow-green ground 287 by 176cm.

Auction archive: Lot number 24
Auction:
Datum:
1 Apr 2009
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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