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Length of velvet
Turkish
Ottoman
Last half of the 16th century
Object Place: Turkey
Medium/Technique
Silk velvet brocaded with gilt metal-wrapped silk weft
Dimensions
59.5 x 152.5 cm (23 7/16 x 60 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number17.600
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionGround: red cut silk pile. Design: tulips growing from undulating stems brocaded with tarnished gold (gilded silver wound on yellow silk). Weft: neutral yellow cotton.
ProvenanceBy 1907, Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Boston; 1917, gift of Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 15, 1917)