AN OTTOMAN GILT AND SILVER EMBROIDERED CALLIGRAPHIC PANEL, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

拍品描述

Rectangular devotional textile panel embroidered in gilt and silver metallic threads on a green ground, enclosed within multiple ornamental borders. The central oval medallion contains the Kalimat al-Tawhid, rendered in raised metallic embroidery and surrounded by radiating floral and foliate motifs. The surrounding inscriptions comprise four verses from Surat al-Fath, embroidered in gilt thread. Four circular cartouches positioned around the central medallion contain the names of the Rightly Guided Caliphs, worked in silver thread. 105 × 80 cm.

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