Not currently on display at the V&A

Hanging

1600-1699 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Some pieces of Ottoman embroidery made between 1500 and the 1720s have survived. They are whole covers, or fragments of covers. They are decorated with large-scale, bold designs in red, blue, green and yellow, with small amounts of black and white.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Embroidered linen with silks
Brief description
Hanging of embroidered linen with silks, Turkey, 1600-1699
Physical description
Hanging of embroidered linen with silks in surface darning on the diagonal and a running stitch border. The border, which is along the lower edge and the right hand side, has an angular green meander with red pomegranates and blue leaves. The ground is decorated with off-set bands of red pomegranates between curving blue serrated leaves, each with a white internal stem, and with a red cloud band motif at the base and red spiky leaves at the top. Each pomegranate contains a pattern of stems coming from a green base and with a central white tulip. Made from two widths joined after being embroidered.
Dimensions
  • Length: 141cm
  • Width: 85cm
  • Width: 35in
  • Length: 55.5in
Style
Marks and inscriptions
Curtain. ?Chios. Bought from the old ? Fool. Athens. Price 30 dr. 1905 [not clear] (Label sewn onto the bottom right-hand corner)
Credit line
Given by Mr A. Skene
Subjects depicted
Summary
Some pieces of Ottoman embroidery made between 1500 and the 1720s have survived. They are whole covers, or fragments of covers. They are decorated with large-scale, bold designs in red, blue, green and yellow, with small amounts of black and white.
Bibliographic reference
Illustrated in 'Ottoman Embroidery' by Marianne Ellis and Jennifer Wearden (V&A Publication, 2001); plate 31
Collection
Accession number
T.150-1966

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Record createdJuly 27, 1999
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