Textile fragment

Turkish
Last half of the 16th century

Object Place, Turkey

DIMENSIONS
59.5 x 152.5 cm (23 7/16 x 60 1/16 in.)

ACCESSION NUMBER
17.600

MEDIUM OR TECHNIQUE
Silk cut velvet brocade, cotton, and gilt-wrapped silk

Ground: red cut silk pile. Design: tulips growing from undulating stems brocaded with tarnished gold (gilded silver wound on yellow silk). Weft: neutral yellow cotton.

Provenance
By 1907, Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Boston; 1917, gift of Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 15, 1917)

Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston