AN OTTOMAN METAL-THREAD EMBROIDERED RED-GROUND SADDLE COVER

AN OTTOMAN METAL-THREAD EMBROIDERED RED-GROUND SADDLE COVER

Reference: ART3001315

With embroidered silver, gold and polychrome silk threads (including green, blue, orange, red, yellow, salmon pink) on red velvet ground, featuring a large palmette between scrolls of carnations, with a foliate border.

CATALOGUE NOTE number of similar Ottoman embroidered saddle covers, some of which ended up in Polish collections following the Battle of Vienna in 1683, are illustrated in Istanbul 1999, pp.198-205, nos.98-102. A further example of how such a saddle cover would be mounted is illustrated in Żygulski 1992, p.145, no.III.59.