TWO VELVET AND METAL-THREAD PANELS

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31.03.2022 10:30UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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ID 727343
Lot 120 | TWO VELVET AND METAL-THREAD PANELS
TWO VELVET AND METAL-THREAD PANELS

ITALY, 17TH CENTURY

The ruby-red velvet ground with staggered rows of ice-blue velvet lozenges, embroidered in gilt-threads with a lattice with flowers and pomegranates, overall good condition

56 1⁄8 x 25 3⁄8in. (142.4 x 64.5cm.); 55 1⁄2 x 25 3⁄8in. (140.8 x 64.5cm.)







Provenance

Semsi Molla (1844-1894), senior physician in the military hospital in Istanbul, whose father Celalettin Bey was one of the personal doctors of Sultan Abdülhamid II (1842-1918)

Tevfik and Nihal (1923-2014) Küya? (1916-89), Davos, Switzerland.

By descent to the present owner, great-grandaughter of Semsi Molla

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