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Asian Art
Explore image in Two Lengths Compound Satin from a Ka’aba Cover
18th Century
Warps black silk, satin woven over five
20 1/2 × 34 in. (52.1 × 86.4 cm)
Purchased through Professor Alfred Bellinger, Feb. 24, 1937
1937.9
Geography:
Turkey
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
Turkish, Islamic
Period:
Ottoman period (1299–1922)
Classification:
Textiles
Provenance:
Professor Alfred R. Bellinger; purchased in 1937 by Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
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