CAIRO, EGYPT, FIRST HALF 20TH CENTURY

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Cairo was the centre for embroidery in Egypt. Calligraphic panels produced in Cairo such as the present work would have been placed on walls, pendentives or hung from columns such that they would be clearly visible. The elegant thuluth inscription of the present panel closely resembles an embroidered panel from the burqa’, or the curtain that covered the door of the Ka’ba, in the Khalili collection published in Vernoit, 1997, no.10, p.28.