The üçetek entari is made of yellow silk and embroidered in the laid cord technique. It has a stand-up collar and long trailing skirt and sleeves. It is fastened across the chest by button loops and plaited buttons. There is a watch pocket on the bodice. Bands of embroidery in coloured silk cord run along the edges of the skirt, sleeves, slits and gore seams, and all the edges are scalloped and decorated with trimming worked in matching motifs using coloured silk cord. The entari belonged to the family of Osman Hamdi Bey, the painter and the founder of İstanbul Archeaology Museums. It is thought to be the same robe worn by his wife Naile Hanım when posing for his painting Girl Arranging flowers in 1881.
References: Demirsar, B., Osman Hamdi Tablolarında Gerçekle İlişkiler, Kültür Bakanlığı, Ankara 1989, p. 99; Sadberk Hanım Müzesi, İstanbul 1989, 171, fig. 9; Battesti, T., Les Ottomanes, Printemps Haussmann, Exposition Istanbul Fevrier-Mars 1990, Paris 1990, p.38; Çağman, F., Selçuklu-Osmanlı Dönemi, Çağlarboyu Anadolu'da Kadın, Anadolu Kadınının 9000 Yılı, C155, İstanbul 1993, p.275; Küçükerman, Ö., Türk Giyim Sanayiinin Tarihi Kaynakları, GSD Dış Ticaret A.Ş., İstanbul 2003, p.158; Barışta, H. Ö., "Özel Müzelerimiz ve Koleksiyonlarımız: Sadberk Hanım Müzesi'ndeki Türk İşlemeleri", Sanat Dünyamız, Sayı 100, İstanbul 2006, p.74; Görünür, L., Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nun Son Döneminden Kadın Giysileri, Sadberk Hanım Müzesi Koleksiyonu / Women's Costume of the Late Ottoman Era from the Sadberk Hanım Museum Collection, Sadberk Hanım Museum Publication, İstanbul 2010, pp.78-79.
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