Turkish lampas textile panel

An image of Textiles. Panel. Unknown maker, Turkey. Lampas, red warp-faced satin ground with pattern formed by silk wefts of light blue and yellow with fragments of the black originally used for outlining the large areas of gilt metal thread, now largely worn down to its silk core. Ogival lattice tied by Italian crown motif with an alternating repeat pattern of tulip and artichoke. Length, whole, 290 cm, width, whole, 67.2 cm, circa 1550 to circa 1599.

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Textiles. Panel. Unknown maker, Turkey. Lampas, red warp-faced satin ground with pattern formed by silk wefts of light blue and yellow with fragments of the black originally used for outlining the large areas of gilt metal thread, now largely worn down to its silk core. Ogival lattice tied by Italian crown motif with an alternating repeat pattern of tulip and artichoke. Length, whole, 290 cm, width, whole, 67.2 cm, circa 1550 to circa 1599.

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Accession Number: T.157-1946
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 51.7
Camera: GFX 50S
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 330 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 459.04kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2018:04:08 23:35:09

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16th Century artichoke bright pink Fitz_AA flowers gilt lampas metal metallic ovigal panel patterned pink repeated pattern satin silk silks textile thread tulips Turkish weaving woven

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