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General
Classification: Ottomen
Textiles
JBOC Comments:
Auction Description:
EXOTICA SALE
SALE L05223 LOT 226
SESSION 1 | 25 May 05 11:00 AM.
London, New Bond Street
AN OTTOMAN VOIDED SILK VELVET AND METAL THREAD
(ÇATMA) PANEL, PROBABLY BURSA, WEST ANATOLIA,
SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
8,000—12,000 GBP
Lot Sold. Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium:
7,200 GBP
MEASUREMENTS
approximately 152 by 49cm.
DESCRIPTION
second half 16th century
Condition Note: mounted and framed
CATALOGUE NOTE
This çatma with an ogival lattice linked by
so-called ‘St. Stephen’ crowns
alternating with large flattened flower heads
perfectly exemplifies the exchange of ideas and
decorative motifs between East and West and the
resulting creation of fabrics by Ottoman weavers
for export, designed to appeal to the fashionable
cogniscenti of Europe. Here, we see an amalgam of
Italianate motifs such as the crown and elaborate
palmette with very typical Turkish motifs such as
the small stencil-like tulips beneath the large
palmettes and the curled saz leaves enclosing
flowers (a decorative motif often seen in other
branches of the Ottoman decorative arts, such as
Iznik ceramics of the period) successfully
synthesised to create a bold and dramatic design
which continues to appeal today.
Related textiles are in the Kunstgewerbe Museum,
Köln, see Markowsky, Barbara, Seiden Gewebe,
Köln, 1976, no.721, p.385; in the collection of
the State History Museum, Moscow; and the Benaki
Museum, Athens, no.3812, illustrated in Gürsu,
N., The Art of Turkish Weaving, Istanbul, 1988,
fig.70, p.89. A related yastik is in the
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, see Atasoy, N.
et al, Ipek: the Crescent and the Rose, London,
2001, no.87, p.135 & fig.299, p.302.
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