Lot 107
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An embroidered panel, surface darned in silks with a red eight-pointed stellar medallion enclosing a wreath of blue and yellow palmettes and small blue birds and centred with a figure on horseback set within concentric stars, the field with paired white palmettes, blue lozenges and further birds against a black ground, within a red-ground border of S-scrolls--41 x 34¼in. (104 x 87cm.) Caucasian, circa 1700, reduced, areas re-worked
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An embroidered panel, surface darned in silks with a red eight-pointed stellar medallion enclosing a wreath of blue and yellow palmettes and small blue birds and centred with a figure on horseback set within concentric stars, the field with paired white palmettes, blue lozenges and further birds against a black ground, within a red-ground border of S-scrolls--41 x 34¼in. (104 x 87cm.) Caucasian, circa 1700, reduced, areas re-worked

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An embroidered panel, surface darned in silks with a red eight-pointed stellar medallion enclosing a wreath of blue and yellow palmettes and small blue birds and centred with a figure on horseback set within concentric stars, the field with paired white palmettes, blue lozenges and further birds against a black ground, within a red-ground border of S-scrolls--41 x 34¼in. (104 x 87cm.) Caucasian, circa 1700, reduced, areas re-worked
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Lot Essay

See 'A Synthesis of Contrasts', Jennifer Weardon, Hali, no. 59, October 1991, pages 102-111, for a discussion of this group of embroideries. See also Orient Stars, A Carpet Collection, Stuttgart and London, 1993

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