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An unusual susani, worked in couched silks, the asymmetric field embroidered with a flowering tree bearing a variety of large-scale rosettes, palmettes and flame-shaped flowers amidst scrolling dark blue foliage, the borders with out-sized palmettes, quinquxes and rosettes within leaf circles--99 x 74in. (252 x 188cm.), probably Shakrhizabz, mid 19th century, tears, areas of ground restored
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An unusual susani, worked in couched silks, the asymmetric field embroidered with a flowering tree bearing a variety of large-scale rosettes, palmettes and flame-shaped flowers amidst scrolling dark blue foliage, the borders with out-sized palmettes, quinquxes and rosettes within leaf circles--99 x 74in. (252 x 188cm.), probably Shakrhizabz, mid 19th century, tears, areas of ground restored

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An unusual susani, worked in couched silks, the asymmetric field embroidered with a flowering tree bearing a variety of large-scale rosettes, palmettes and flame-shaped flowers amidst scrolling dark blue foliage, the borders with out-sized palmettes, quinquxes and rosettes within leaf circles--99 x 74in. (252 x 188cm.), probably Shakrhizabz, mid 19th century, tears, areas of ground restored
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