A SILK AND METAL-THREAD BANNER (SANJAK)

Lot 139
27.04.2023 10:00UTC +00:00
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£ 157 500
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ID 932027
Lot 139 | A SILK AND METAL-THREAD BANNER (SANJAK)
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£ 30 000 – 50 000
A SILK AND METAL-THREAD BANNER (SANJAK)

OTTOMAN ISTANBUL, TURKEY, DATED AH 1225/1810-11 AD

The central field comprising five joined panels of green silk decorated in gold and silver gilt threads and crimson silk with calligraphic roundels and foliate cartouches, a vertical arrangement of repetitions of the shahada in gold thread written in thuluth on crimson silk, further band of crimson silk border with gold thuluth inscriptions, single sided

78 x 130 1/2in. (198.3 x 332cm.)





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Private London collection by 1983, from where gifted to a resident of the Channel Islands
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