Embroidery
Stockholm, Sweden
Museum of National Antiquities
Emerentia von Düben, Maid of Honour to Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden
Riddarholm Church, Stockholm, through donation of Emerentia von Düben in 1728
Hegira early 12th century / AD early 18th century
5049:d
Silk, gold thread; chiffon, embroidery.
Height 115 cm, width 114 cm
Ottoman
Turkey.
The greenish ground material of this embroidery is very sheer chiffon. Blossoming shrubs are spread over the entire surface of this fine fabric, executed in gradated shades of different-coloured silk. The outlines and stems are made of gold thread. Judging from the circle in the middle, this nearly square textile could originally have served as a turban cover. While the textile was in Riddarholm Church in Stockholm it was used as a baptismal font cover.
View Short DescriptionEmbroidery on a ground of very sheer, greenish chiffon. Blossoming shrubs are spread over the entire surface of the textile. The embroidery could originally have served as a turban cover. During the time it belonged to Riddarholm Church in Stockholm it was used as a cover for a baptismal font.
Dated by A. Geijer (see Bibliography).
Deposit by Riddarholm Church, Stockholm.
Provenance established according to the technique by A. Geijer (see Bibliogrqphy).
Ådahl, K. (ed.), Sverige och den Islamiska Världen, Värnamo, 2002, 182–3.
Geijer, A., Oriental Textiles in Sweden, Copenhagen, 1951, 83–5, cat. no. 143, plate 74 (black and white), plate XVII (colour).
Islam, Konst och Kultur. Islam, Art and Culture, Exhibition catalogue, Stockholm, 1985, cat. no. 31.
Friederike Voigt "Embroidery" in Discover Islamic Art, Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;se;Mus01_A;39;en
MWNF Working Number: SE 43
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