ID 727119 
Lot 126  | A CALLIGRAPHIC SILK PANEL
Estimate value
£ 40 000 – 60 000 
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
| Medium: | Silk, Textile | 
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| Place of origin: | Asia, Ottoman Empire, Turkey | 
| Medium: | Silk, Textile | 
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| Place of origin: | Asia, Ottoman Empire, Turkey | 
| Address of auction | CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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