AN OTTOMAN SILK AND METAL-THREAD CURTAIN OR COVER, TURKEY, 19TH CENTURY AN OTTOMAN SILK AND METAL-THREAD CURTAIN OR COVER, TURKEY, 19TH CENTURY

AN OTTOMAN SILK AND METAL-THREAD CURTAIN OR COVER, TURKEY, 19TH CENTURY

Reference: ART3001623

Of rectangular form, embellished on a silk green ground with a repeating of three undulating bands running from the beginning to the end of the cloth, which assume the form of a continuous chain made up of number ‘7’s. The central band with prominent inscription of ‘Kalimaat al-Tawhid, There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his Prophet’. The upper band with the inscription of ‘O, Allah! Commend and salute the prophet Muhammad, most esteemed of all prophets and emissaries’. The lower band with ‘May Allah be well pleased with Abu Bakr, Omar, Othoman, Ali and all other companions of the Prophet Muhammad’.
Further stylised with a cream colored weave of the words ‘Allah and Muhammed’. Applied with darker green panel embroidered with silver and silver-gilt metal-threads on a gilt silk ground, shaped as Mihraab and containing cartouches enclosing ‘Allah and Muhammad’. To the centre with a large roundel enclosing in thuluth script Quran 112 surah Al-Ikhlas or Al-Tawhid, with four words of ‘O, Allah’ above two cartouches enclosing ‘Kalimaat al-Tawhid, There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his Prophet’. Further stylised to the lower section with cartouches of scrolling foliage and arabesque. 300 by 250 cm.