EGYPT, 15TH CENTURY

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A MAMLUK SILK TEXTILE
EGYPT, 15TH CENTURY
Comprising two strips, possibly originally part of a pair of trousers, woven with vertical columns of palmettes alternating with vertical columns of lozenge panels containing the word al-sultan, divided by plain light blue bands, some damages, well preserved colours, mounted framed and glazed
32in. (81.5cm.) high

Provenance

The Madina Collection, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost

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Lot Essay

Another panel from the same original textile, also with the same provenance as the present lot, was exhibited in Washington in 1981 (E. Atil: Renaissance of Islam, Art of the Mamluks, exhibition catalogue, Washington D.C., 1981, no.119, p.236). A smaller fragment of the same textile is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, inv.no.1979.462.2.

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