Lot 101
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A pateh door curtain, the red wool ground embroidered in coloured wools with a stylised cypress tree, infilled with an intricately graduating pattern, flanked by a pair of smaller cypresses and hoopoes, within an elaborate lachak pair in the top corners, the base with a pair of peacocks, inscribed in white thread Amal é Haghir é Faghir Mashhadi Hossein (the work of the humble Mashhadi Hossein), surrounded by a three-layer embroidered border of yellow, red and green wool, lined, Central Persia, Kashan or Kirman, 19th century--90in. x 55in. (228cm x 140cm)
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A pateh door curtain, the red wool ground embroidered in coloured wools with a stylised cypress tree, infilled with an intricately graduating pattern, flanked by a pair of smaller cypresses and hoopoes, within an elaborate lachak pair in the top corners, the base with a pair of peacocks, inscribed in white thread Amal é Haghir é Faghir Mashhadi Hossein (the work of the humble Mashhadi Hossein), surrounded by a three-layer embroidered border of yellow, red and green wool, lined, Central Persia, Kashan or Kirman, 19th century--90in. x 55in. (228cm x 140cm)

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A pateh door curtain, the red wool ground embroidered in coloured wools with a stylised cypress tree, infilled with an intricately graduating pattern, flanked by a pair of smaller cypresses and hoopoes, within an elaborate lachak pair in the top corners, the base with a pair of peacocks, inscribed in white thread Amal é Haghir é Faghir Mashhadi Hossein (the work of the humble Mashhadi Hossein), surrounded by a three-layer embroidered border of yellow, red and green wool, lined, Central Persia, Kashan or Kirman, 19th century--90in. x 55in. (228cm x 140cm)
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

Lot Essay

The title of Mashhadi applies to a believer who has acheived a pilgrimage to the shrine of Reza, the eight Shi'ite saint, in the North-East city of Mashhad, the capital of the province of Khorassan.

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