Fabric length

Turkish
mid-16th century

Object Place, Turkey

DIMENSIONS
164.7 x 66 cm (64 13/16 x 26 in.)

ACCESSION NUMBER
04.1627

MEDIUM OR TECHNIQUE
Cut and voided silk velvet brocaded with metal-wrapped silk threads

Red cut silk pile on a satin ground patterned tulips and pointed cones growing from undulating stems, brocaded with gold thread (gilded silver wound on yellow silk) on a yellow silk foundation, outlined with light blue, and, and detailed with red and blue cut silk pile.

Provenance
Gift of Denman Waldo Ross to MFA, November 3, 1904.

Credit Line: Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston