TWO LENGTHS OF SILK, TUNISIAN, 19TH CENTURY
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TWO LENGTHS OF SILK, TUNISIAN, 19TH CENTURY

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TWO LENGTHS OF SILK, TUNISIAN, 19TH CENTURY
woven with red, and blue vertical stripes deviding a yellow ground woven with chevrons--28in. (70cm.) x 21in. (54cm.)
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Lot Essay

A number of silks from this group are represented in public and private collections. The earlier, 17th and 18th century pieces are often woven with a stylised inscription saying that they were woven by 'Mohamed Ali'. This piece falls into the later canon, woven without an inscription.

See Spring & Hudson, North African Textiles, page 94 for examples.

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