Lot 80
80
A panel of buff-coloured compound-weave silk, woven with rows of stellar medallions and bands of red stylised leaves incorporating calligraphic inscriptions, with formalised tulips, leaves and trefoil motifs between, probably from a tomb cover, Persian, 17th century (damages and glued patched repairs)--35½in. x 17½in. (90cm x 44.5cm) mounted on a backing
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A panel of buff-coloured compound-weave silk, woven with rows of stellar medallions and bands of red stylised leaves incorporating calligraphic inscriptions, with formalised tulips, leaves and trefoil motifs between, probably from a tomb cover, Persian, 17th century (damages and glued patched repairs)--35½in. x 17½in. (90cm x 44.5cm) mounted on a backing

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A panel of buff-coloured compound-weave silk, woven with rows of stellar medallions and bands of red stylised leaves incorporating calligraphic inscriptions, with formalised tulips, leaves and trefoil motifs between, probably from a tomb cover, Persian, 17th century (damages and glued patched repairs)--35½in. x 17½in. (90cm x 44.5cm) mounted on a backing
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Lot Essay

For related silks see Isabell Errera, Catalogue d'Etoffes Anciennes et Modernes, plate 383D and Islamic Carpets and Textiles in the Keir Collection, F Spuhler, plate 139. Both examples are woven with similar eight-pointed star medallions. An entire runner with a field combining star medallions with a similar arrangement of tulips and leaf cartouches was sold at Christie's South Kensington, 25 April 1994, lot 103

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