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SILK AND METAL THREAD APPLIQUE PANELS FROM THE BURQA', ABOVE THE MAIN DOOR TO THE KA'BA

EGYPT, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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SILK AND METAL THREAD APPLIQUE PANELS FROM THE BURQA', ABOVE THE MAIN DOOR TO THE KA'BA
EGYPT, LATE 19TH CENTURY
The upper panel from the main curtain of the Ka'aba at Mecca, the black silk ground worked with appliqué metal thread inscription within a rectangular panel with rounded ends, minor damages, mounted on black cloth and stretched
15½ x 78½in. (39.5 x 200cm.)

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Lot Essay

The text is suraXXVII al-naml v.30 and suraXVII al-israa v.80.

This is a panel from the Burqa', the main door of the Ka'ba. Its position would have been just above the four cartouches containing mirrored script (see lot 46, 26 April 2005).

A very similar panel can be seen on a burqa' illustrated in Hulya Tezcan, Astar al-Haramayn, Istanbul 1996, no.8, p.66.

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