Pillow cover (yastik)

Turkish
17th century

Object Place, Turkey

DIMENSIONS
125.6 x 66 cm (49 7/16 x 26 in.)

ACCESSION NUMBER
77.256

MEDIUM OR TECHNIQUE
Silk cut voided velvet brocade, cotton, silver colored metal strip wrapped on silk core

Void cut silk pile with design of carnations in profile growing from stem bearing two long leaves and two small tulips, brocaded with tarnished metal thread (metal wound on white silk) and detailed with tulips, hyacinths and rose-buds in cut silk pile. Neutral brown cotton weft.

Provenance
Gift of Martin Brimmer to MFA, December 1, 1877.

Credit Line
Gift of Martin Brimmer

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston