AN OTTOMAN METAL-THREAD EMBROIDERED BORDER PANEL (HIZAM), DATED 1309 AH/1891 AD

Reference: ART3006092

Rectangular, the red, black and green ground embroidered with silver and gilt thread with appliqué panels, a large cartouche containing a frieze of thuluth inscription, flanked by two roundels enclosing inscriptions of gilt wires in thuluth script on a green ground, all within a floral stem border, backed.
730 by 90 cm.

The inscriptions comprise:

In the large black ground cartouche:
v.26-v.29 from surah al-Hajj

In two smaller cartouches : - v. 84 from surah al-Israa - " This blessed band was ordered by our Lord "Mawalan" the sultan AbdulHamid Khan inn 1309 AH.