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Turkish, Turkey

Textile hanging, 1800s

Description

Maker

Culture

Turkish

Title

Textile hanging

Year

1800s

Medium

Silk satin compound weave, with continuous and discontinuous supplementary weft patterning tied in twill

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Techniques

Dimensions

Length: 185.4 cm (73 inches)

Place

Turkey

Type

Credit

Bequest of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich

Object Number

55.244

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Ottoman Turkish Interior Textiles from the Aldrich Collection

January 22 - July 17, 2016

This elaborately patterned hanging, made for an architectural niche, would also have found domestic use. The heavy red weave is brocaded in yellow, green, and blue silk; in the center is a vase of flowers, with a dome and Turkish crescent above and lamps hanging in arches below. Star and floral motifs fill the borders.

One legacy of the 16th-century Ottoman textile artisans is the use of architectual details like those found in this 19th-century example, which suggests an Ottoman courtyard.

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