UZBEKISTAN, 19TH CENTURY

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A BUKHARA SUZANI
UZBEKISTAN, 19TH CENTURY
Embroidered on six panels, the cotton plainweave embroidered in silk, the field with three star-shaped medallions of green serrated leaves, containing flowering shrubs around a smaller star enclosing a flowerhead, enclosed by scattered flowering stems, in a border of medallions formed of flowering stems with pairs of stems with three flowers at the interstices, between floral meander minor stripes, unlined
7ft.9in. x 5ft.1in. (235 x 154cm.)

Provenance

Anon. sale, Bonhams London, 9 June 2010, lot 137

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Lot Essay

The design of this suzani is similar to that of the previous lot. The cruciform arrangement of flowers in the field around the medallions recurs in Bukhara suzanis with an overall lattice design, such as one published by David Black, Embroidered Flowers from Thrace to Tartary, London, 1981, no.22. The delicate palette and fine weaving of this suzani does suggest an affinity with those produced in nearby Nurata, but the overall density of the embroidery indicates that a Bukharan origin is more likely.

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