BURSA, TURKEY, 17TH CENTURY

According to Nurhan Atasoy the design of repeating roundels deriving from cintamani form were a mainstay of Bursa weaving design of the 17th century (Nurhan Atasoy, Walter B. Denny, Louise W. Mackie and Hülya Tezcan, Ipek, The Crescent and the Rose, Imperial Ottoman Silks and Velvets, London and Istanbul, 2001, pl. 93). A cushion cover in a private collection has a very similar repeated çintamani design and is attributed to 17th century (Nurhan Atasoy, Walter B. Denny, Louise W. Mackie and Hülya Tezcan, op.cit, London and Istanbul, 2001, pp.320-21, fig.365).