A CALLIGRAPHIC SILK PANEL

Lot 126
31.03.2022 10:30UTC +00:00
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£ 504 000
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Lot 126 | A CALLIGRAPHIC SILK PANEL
Estimate value
£ 40 000 – 60 000
A CALLIGRAPHIC SILK PANEL

OTTOMAN TURKEY, 16TH CENTURY

The red satin ground woven in yellow silk with verses from the Qur'an in elegant thuluth, interspersed with split palmette and cloudband motifs, with composite red silk outer borders, conserved, backed and mounted

10 x 59in. (25.5 x 150cm.)







Provenance

Estate of Germaine de Peyerimhoff de Fontenelle, daughter of Pierre Azaria (1865-1953)

Thence by descent to the previous owner
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