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A MAMLUK WEFT-FACED SILK WOVEN FRAGMENT
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A MAMLUK WEFT-FACED SILK WOVEN FRAGMENT

EGYPT, 14TH CENTURY (CHECK THIS)

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A MAMLUK WEFT-FACED SILK WOVEN FRAGMENT
EGYPT, 14TH CENTURY (CHECK THIS)
The simple woven linen ground woven in brilliantly coloured silks with a lattice of raspberry-pink, indigo, medium blue and lemon-yellow lozenges containing smaller coloured panels, divided by brown lines linking small ivory lozenges, various associated small tassles, original loom width, mounted on board
4 3/8 x 7½in. (11 x 19cm.)
Provenance
Maurice Nahmann Collection, reputedly from Fostat
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Lot Essay

Probably a bag face, particularly in view of the traces of original selvage each side. The vivid colours and associated tassels resemble those of a delightful Mamluk silk applied patchwork bag with linen lining and embroidered with various colours, (Ashmolean Museum, no. 66, in Marianne Ellis, Embroideries and samplers from Islamic Egypt, Oxford, 2001, p.94).

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