A Complete Belt for the Prophet’s Mosque
Title:
A Complete Belt for the Prophet’s Mosque
Date: 1808–39
Location: Istanbul, Turkey; commissioned by Sultan Mahmud II
Materials: red silk, with pale brown and gold-coloured silk appliqués, relief-embroidered in silver and silver-gilt wire over cotton thread padding
Dimensions: 62 x 3100cm
Accession Number: TXT 365
Script:
The nitaq, or belt, is embroidered with al-Asma’ al-Husna (‘The Beautiful Names of God’), followed by a short prayer in which Sultan Mahmud II asks for God’s forgiveness. The short commissioning notice appears above the tughra of Sultan Mahmud II in the roundel at its end.
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