Cushion Cover
1625-1650 (made)
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Cushion cover, voided and brocaded silk velvet or çatma, with main design of staggered roundels containing red roses and crescents, set against red ground, with rosebud and crescent lappets at upper and lower borders. Straight repeat pattern on horizontal axis and point repeat on vertical axis with two minimum pattern areas
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Voided and brocaded silk velvet. Satin foundation structure: 4/1 satin, unplied ivory silk filament warp, 1 strand ivory cotton weft. Satin and velvet warp order 3-1. Velvet structure: red and green silk; pile counts: warps 10, along weft 14. Brocade structure: wholly brocaded, 4/1 twill; count 16 and 24; 2 shots between pile. Gilt or silver (?) metal wrap, Z-twist, variable tightness. Uses two different types of kilaptan. Selvedges: 1cm. Uses blue silk warps that use more warp threads closer to the edge; at one band, the wefts float over a set of warps. Selvedge twill: 2/1 or 3/1. 1.2 cm. and 1 cm.
Back restored and covered with red cotton cloth; though it is difficult to tell, the main motifs use both gold and silver thread; the silver is in the interior part of the moons at the bottom of each roundel; gold in the larger parts; the extreme striations of the green/blue is carried through on the back, which makes it unlikely that the evenness is the result of fading due to light. One end has tightly wrapped kilaptan. |
| Brief description | Cushion cover, voided and brocaded silk velvet or çatma, with large staggered roundels containing red roses and crescents, and arched lappets at upper and lower borders, probably Bursa, Ottoman Turkey, 1625-1650 |
| Physical description | Cushion cover, voided and brocaded silk velvet or çatma, with main design of staggered roundels containing red roses and crescents, set against red ground, with rosebud and crescent lappets at upper and lower borders. Straight repeat pattern on horizontal axis and point repeat on vertical axis with two minimum pattern areas |
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| Gallery label | Jameel Gallery
3 Velvet Cushion Cover with Rosebuds
Turkey, probably Bursa
1625–50
This cushion design consists of seven large staggered roundels set against a red ground. Each roundel holds a leafy branch of five red roses arching over boldly striped crescents. The upper and lower borders of the cushion are marked with six arched lappets, which repeat these motifs in a smaller format.
Silk velvet with metal-wrapped thread
Museum no. 423-1889
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| Bibliographic reference | The Arts of Islam, Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Hayward Gallery, 8 April - 4 July, 1976, The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1976. 396p., ill. ISBN 0 7287 0081 6 paper bound, 07287 0080 8 cloth bound. Catalogue entry 29, p.85 |
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| Accession number | 423-1889 |
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| Record created | November 4, 2003 |
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