A CHECHAOUEN EMBROIDERY

MOROCCO, 18TH/19TH CENTURY

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A CHECHAOUEN EMBROIDERY
MOROCCO, 18TH/19TH CENTURY
Two squares of polychrome silk with a central roundel, applied to a burgundy linen ground, the embroidery worked with geometric cartouches and eight-pointed stars in polychrome silks
47¼ x 115in. (120 x 292cm.)

Lot Essay

A similar example although probably earlier is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, see "Masterpiece from the Department of Islamic Art in The Metropolitan Museum", pp. 83.

Compare also Catalogue Number 376, "Maroc- Les Trésors du Royaume", Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux Arts de la Ville de Paris, 1999 for an unaltered example in similar tones.

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