Details
A susani, embroidered in Bokharan couch stitch with ladder stitch outline with a border of roundels set with four corner rosettes, the field a formal arrangement of rosette quinqunxes, probably Bokhara, or Shakrhisabz, first half of the 19th century--120cm x 165cm
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Further details
The configuration of central rosettes surrounded by four smaller rosettes, and the strong colours of this susani tend to indicate an origin nearer Shakrhizabz, although the stitching is not the more expected Roumanian couched stitch.