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Turkish, Bursa Turkey

Textile Length, 1550 - 1650

Description

Maker

  • Unknown

Culture

Turkish

Title

Textile Length

Year

1550 - 1650

Medium

Silk and cotton satin weave with supplementary cut-warp pile (velvet) and supplementary wrapped metallic weft (çatmas)

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • silk,
  • cotton,
  • metallic yarn

Dimensions

115.6 x 62.2 cm (45 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches)

Place

Bursa; Turkey

Type

  • Textiles

Credit

Gift of William McCue

Object Number

1988.082.2

About

Sinuous floral garlands weave between gold abstracted carnations in this silk velvet textile. The form of the carnations evokes the tree-of-life motif popular in Indian design, which was familiar to Turkish artisans through generations of trade. Another cross-cultural motif—the chintamani—is found within the petals of the carnation. Defined by three circles in triangular formation, this design originated in Buddhist imagery, including the paintings in Central Asia’s Mogao caves (ca. 1000 CE), and may represent pearls and flames. The chintamani also relates to Turkish crescent-and-horn designs from the first century. These references were expertly woven together in a textile workshop in Bursa, Turkey, creating a distinctly Ottoman style.

Bursa; Turkey
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Projects & Publications

Publications

Glimpses of Grandeur

Courtly Arts of the Later Islamic Empires

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Glimpses of Grandeur

September 24 - December 26, 1999

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The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Textile Length with the accession number of 1988.082.2. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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