AN OTTOMAN DEEP ORANGE SILK WRAPPING CLOTH BOHCA, TURKEY, 19TH CENTURY

Reference: ART3005828

A cloth bohca of square form, elegantly and densely embroidered in silver threads flowers and foliage. The corners with classic scrolls of interlocking flowers heads and arabesque, all over a deep orange silk ground. In Ottoman society, a bohca was used as a wrapping cloth. Some were used to wrap domestic items in and others were used as a travelling cushion.
100 by 93 cm.

PROVENANCE
Private collection, Germany