Ottoman velvet textile
Unknown Artist
- Art Funded
- 2001
- Dimensions
- 166 x 123 cm
- Vendor
- Francesca Galloway
A large cover decorated with six alternate rows of carnation flowers, each petal enclosing a smaller carnation or a tulip.
Perhaps used in a courtly context as a wall hanging, or more usually as a floor spread or cushion covers. Width of two looms.
Provenance
Made in Turkey; Joseph Soustiel, Baron Louis Brincard.