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A SILK BROCADE PANEL (KEMHA)
OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 1600
The crimson silk ground decorated with lobed medallions containing floral motifs surrounded by golden
cintamani roundels, backed, scattered losses and minor repairs
50 x 38¡in. (126.9 x 97.5cm.)
£8,000-12,000 US$12,000-17,000
€9,400-14,000
A brocade panel of the same design was sold and Sotheby’s, London, 24 April 2012, lot 163 and a textile
of similar design forms a cope published in Patricia Frost, Collecting Textiles, London, 2000, pg.56.
The golden roundels that surround the ogival cartouches on this panel are an unusual feature. The large
block-coloured roundels themselves resemble those forming the cintamani motifs adorning a Serenk
caftan from the first half of the sixteenth century (Nevber Gürsu, The Art of Turkish Weaving: Designs
through the Ages, Istanbul, 1988, p. 51, no. 17). Their arrangement, however, differs as it creates a lattice
around the cartouches. A similar arrangement is found on a kemha panel in the Victoria and Albert
Museum (inv.no. 1356-1877) where the roundels are formed of large pomegranates.

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