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GENUINE ORIGINAL AUTHENTIC SULTAN ABDOLHAMID PRIVATE HOME VELVET TEXTILES COLLECTION, HAND EMBROIDERED WITH PLATED SILVER AND GOLD THREADS WITH OLD OTHOMAN DESIGNS AND MOTIVES REPRESENTING THE GRANDEUR AND THE MAGESTY OF THE OTHOMAN ORIENTAL ORNAMENTAL DECORATION STYLES IN THEIR PALACES AND THEIR HAREM HOUSES. MOST OF THEIR DESIGNS WERE FLORAL MOTIVES AND PATTERNS. WITH A MEDAILLON IN THE CENTER AND DECORATED WITH 4 CORNERS IN DIFFERENT KINDS OF FOLWERS AND IN DIFFERENT COLOUR AND VERY EXTRA FINE PRESICION AND CARE. WERE DEMAMDED TO ACHIVE SUCH FINE ART AND CRAFT.
SULTAN ABDOLHAMID PERIOD WAS FAMOUS BY ENCOURIGING ALL KINDS OF HANDICRAFTS AND EMBROIDEREIES IN ORDER TO MAKE THEM AS PRIVATE GIFTS TO HIS FAMILY MEMBERS, STATES OFFICIALS AND TO HIS EUROPEAN, AMBASSADORS, AND QUESTS VISITORS. OTHOMAN TEXTILE EMBROIDEREY FLOURISHED AND REACHED IT ZENITH DURING HIS REIGN BECAUSE HE HAS PRIVATELY FINANCED THISE PROJECTS.
THIS PIECE IS SPECIALLY EMBROIDERED BY HAND AS AN INTERIOR DECORATION OBJECT TO BE USED IN HIS HAREM HOUSE DURING VERY SPECIAL OFFICIAL RECEPTIONS, RELIGIOUS AND MARRIAGE CEREMONIES OCCASION
THIS PIECE WAS BOUGHT BY MY FATHER FROM AN AN ANTIK CARPET DEALER IN ISTANBOUL 1940 DDURING HIS VIST TO SOME DERVICHE SUFI MASTERS AND BROUGHT IT BACK WITH HIM TO ISFAHAN AS A MEMORY OF HIS JOURNEY. |
