A rare Ottoman silk and metal-thread embroidered linen tablecloth Turkey, early 18th Century of circular form, the natural linen ground embroidered in metal thread and polychrome silks with a central roundel containing a flowerhead surrounded by a band of alternating trees and pomegranates, surrounded by four concentric bands containing repeat designs of floral sprays interspersed by floral motifs, the borders with undulating vines, the edge with tassels 188 cm. diam. Footnotes: Provenance Private French Collection. Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 25 April 2017, lot 138. Published Turquie au nom de la Tulipe, Exhibition Catalogue, Centre Culturel de Boulogne-Bilancour, 1993, p. 109, no. 73. For a similar tablecloth in the Sadberk Hanim Museum see Asirlar sonra bir arada, Istanbul, 2005, no. 97. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing