AN UNUSUAL SUSANI
BOKARA, UZBEKISTAN, CIRCA 1835
the natural ground embroidered in Bokharan couched stitch with brightly-coloured silks, the field with an unusual grid enclosing fuchsia and peach pinwheel rosettes and birds, the borders worked with a leafy diamond lattice, each with alternating rosette and palmette flower head
74 x 61 in. (187 x 156 cm.)
AN UNUSUAL SUSANI
BOKARA, UZBEKISTAN, CIRCA 1835
the natural ground embroidered in Bokharan couched stitch with brightly-coloured silks, the field with an unusual grid enclosing fuchsia and peach pinwheel rosettes and birds, the borders worked with a leafy diamond lattice, each with alternating rosette and palmette flower head
74 x 61 in. (187 x 156 cm.)
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