Length of Fabric>One of the more popular layouts with Ottoman textile artists, and one that eventually found its way into other media such as ceramic tile decoration, the pattern on this fabric fragment features parallel undulating vines adorned with leaves and flowers
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, n.s, vol. 11 (1953). p. 103, ill. (b/w).
Said to have been found in Rome; Mme. Edouard Warneck, Paris (sold Hôtel Drouot, June 13-16, 1905); [ Arthur Sambon, Paris (in 1914 but remained with him until at least 1928 (?))]; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris (May 25-28, 1914, no
Hesperia 31, no. 1 (1962). p. 76. Ostoia, Vera K.
(b/w). Breck, Joseph, and Frances Morris. "The Metropolitan Museum of Art."
Beeson, Nora B., ed. Guide to The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Tughra of Sultan Süleyman the MagnificentThe Ottoman Turkish sultans controlled one of the most efficient, well-organized, and effective governmental bureaucracies of early modern times; at the apex of this governmental structure was the Ottoman Imperial Chancery, which created, copied, and recorded all official governmental orders or decrees, known as firman, as well as treaties and official correspondence
Atil 1987, p. 41, no. 4.
1840s, excavated under the direction of Austen Henry Layard; 1849, presented by Layard to Lady Charlotte Guest for Canford Manor, Dorsetshire (Dorset), England; 1919, purchased by Dikran Kelekian from Ivor Churchill Guest; 1927, purchased by J
Louchheim, Aline B. 1949. “Near-Eastern Art Placed on Display: Metropolitan Shows
Pierre Leven, Cologne (until 1853); his sale, J.M. Heberlé, Cologne, October 4, 1853, lot 137 (to Soltykov); Prince Alexei Soltykoff, Paris (1853–d. 1859); by descent to his brother, Prince Petr Soltykov, Paris (1859–61; his sale, Drouot, Paris, April 1961, lot 835,to Russel); Mr
Paris, 1859. ill. pl. 4 (b/w). Collinot, Eugène, and Adalbert de Beaumont.
Pierpont Morgan, 1917 Object Number: 17.190.352a, b From the Church of Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche
Inscription: Inscriptions: Outer guard band: Qur’an, ch. II, vv. 285, 286Main border: Qur’an, ch. II, v. 256Inner guard band: Qur’an, ch. VII, vv. 203–205 Border of niche: Qur’an, ch
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1944. p. 288, ill. fig. 190 (b/w).
Footed BowlAlong with gilded examples, the most treasured glass objects in the Islamic world were the enameled ones, which developed during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in Syria and Egypt under the Ayyubids and Mamluks
B. Tauris, 2012, fig. 1.7.
