ID 932027 
Lot 139  | A SILK AND METAL-THREAD BANNER (SANJAK)
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 50 000 
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.)
Provenance
Private London collection by 1983, from where gifted to a resident of the Channel Islands
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