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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1985.295
People
Unknown Artist
Title
Fragment of a Velvet Yastik (cushion cover)
Classification
Textile Arts
Work Type
textile
Date
2nd quarter of 16th century
Places
Creation Place: Middle East, Türkiye (Turkey), Bursa?
Period
Ottoman period
Culture
Ottoman
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/303398

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Cut, voided silk velvet with brocaded metallic thread (cut at both ends)
Technique
Velvet
Dimensions
H. 98 x W. 78 cm (38 9/16 x 30 11/16 in.)
frame: H. 109.2 × W. 86.4 cm (43 × 34 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Edwin Binney III, San Diego, (by 1985); bequest to the Fogg Museum.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Edwin Binney, 3rd Collection of Turkish Art at the Harvard Art Museums
Accession Year
1985
Object Number
1985.295
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Edwin Binney III, Turkish Treasures from the Collection of Edwin Binney, 3rd, exh. cat., Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR, 1979)
  • Esin Atil, The Age of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1987), pp. 222, fig. 154
  • James Cuno, Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Ivan Gaskell, and William W. Robinson, Harvard's Art Museums: 100 Years of Collecting, ed. James Cuno, Harvard University Art Museums and Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Cambridge, MA, 1996), page 140-141
  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
  • Walter B. Denny and Aileen Ribeiro, Court and Conquest: Ottoman Origins and the Design for Handel's Tamerlano at the Glimmerglass Opera, exh. cat., Kent State University Museum (Kent State, OH, 1999), page 10/figure 10

Exhibition History

  • The Age of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 06/14/1987 - 08/07/1987
  • The Ottoman Empire: A Culture and Its Impact, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/25/1989 - 05/21/1989
  • Islamic Art: The Power of Pattern, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 09/23/1989 - 01/17/1990
  • Woven, Hammered, and Thrown: Textiles and Objects from the Islamic World, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/22/1991 - 08/18/1991
  • The Ottomans and their Contemporaries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/21/1992 - 05/17/1992
  • Pattern and Purpose. Decorative Arts of Islam., Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/19/1994 - 07/03/1994
  • Court and Conquests, Ottoman Origins and the Designs for Handel's "Tamerlano" at the Glimmerglass Opera, Equitable Gallery, New York, 11/18/1998 - 01/23/1999; Kent State University Museum, Kent, 02/17/1999 - 04/25/1999

Verification Level

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