AN EMBROIDERED BANJA LUKA OTTOMAN HANGING
Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ottoman Balkans, early 19th century

The pale blue ground heavily appliqued in coloured wools and cottons, and worked in metallic thread scrolls and flower heads with an elaborate flowering urn in the centre surrounded by columns forming an arch overhead, the borders and arch characterised by fanning strips of pinks, lined, with attached metal rods, 190cm x 132cm.