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Indian
Red Kashmir shawl
Twill woven pashmina
Circa 1800
India
Similar piece published "The Kashmir Shawl" by Frank Ames published by Antique collectors club 1986
Plate 162 and 163
 
 
Indian
Saffron Shawl
Twill woven pashmina
Circa 1830
India
Similar piece published in "The Kashmire Shawl" by Rehman and Jafri published by Mappin 2006 . Pg 44
   
   
Uzbekistan

Suzani / Dowry Embroidery
Nurata/ Shakhrisyabz

Silk on cotton with bokhara couching, and tambour stitches.
Date - 1840s.

Although more typical of a style of embroidery from Nurata, the quality of the silk and dyes, including murex,( see glossary) and the superb borders could indicate that this is from Shakhrisyabz.
A similar piece with Shakhrisyabz provenance is shown within “Vok Collection: Suzani.” Vok, Ignazio, Munich, 1994, pp. 19/20.

Measurement: 90cm x 241 cm.
Provenance - The Sir Emery Walker Collection.

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Tunisian
Very Fine woven silk panel
Tunisian 18th century
with inscription of weaver.
Similar piece
Published in Catologue D'Etoffes by Isabelle Errera.
Brussels 1927. plate 420.
Measurement:21 ins x 106 ins
     
   
   
Syrian or Lebanon
Calligraphic panel
Silk on cotton
Syrian or Lebanon
Late 19th century
Reads
“The winner will be Liberated with Islam as a faith, Allah as God and Jesus as Christ”
Measurement  46ins x 11ins
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Turkish

Silk embroidered on cotton
with metal thread
using ten different colours
Possibly from Skyros but with Turkish influence
c. 1800
Dimensions:  34" x 24"

   
   
   
Turkish

Silk and metal embroidered panel
on cotton showing styilised
pomegranates and carnations
Turkish
18th century
Dimensions:  23.5" x 16"

   
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Uzbekistan
Bokhara Nime Susani
Silk on cotton with rare colour combination,
embroidered in chain stitch circa 1880s.
Purchased in 1903.
Provanance :Lady Trevelyan
(wedding present from her sister Gertude Bell 1904)
Measurement: 41ins x 62 ins
Research
   
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Uzbekistan

 


Dowery Susani
Nurata District
Uzbekistan
Mid 19th century
Measurement: 99ins x 62 ins

   
   
   
Yeman
Yemani Wedding Dress
Early 20th cent
Warp faced cotton with silk couching
and woven metal thread
   
   
   
Yeman

Yemani Wedding Dress
Early 20th cent
Warp faced cotton with silk couching
and woven metal thread
   
   
   
 

Embroidery
Silk and metal thread
Mid 19th century
Measurements: 100 x 180cms
SOLD

   
   
   
Uzbekistan

Suzani
Bokhara, Uzbekistan
Silk on cotton, circa 1840.
Trellis design on centre field;
murex dye used in flowers on border;
irises, pomegranates and carnations throughout.
90 in x 57 in
229 cms x 146 cms
   
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Turkish
An Embroidered Panel
Counted thread (in delicate condition)
Turkish
1600s
36 x 21 inches - 91 x 53 cm
    SOLD
   
   
Uzbekistan
Dowry Textile
Silk embroidered on cotton susani.
From Nurata, Uzbekistan.
Early 19th century
Measurements:87insx 61ins
   
   
   
India
Quilted Palampore
Mordant- Dyed and painted
Coromandel Coast
India
Late 18th century
Measurements: 9ft x 6ft 2ins
   
   
   
Persian
Embroidered cover.
Silk and guilt thread embroidery on silk.
Measurements: 32 in x 45 in or 82 cms x 114 cms
   
   
   
Turkish

Ottoman Calligraphic Tomb Panel
Silk Lampas
Turkish
17th century.
Similar piece in Topkapi Museum Istanbul
inv.no.13/1690

 
(detail)
SOLD
   
   
Persian


Persian Calligraphy
Silk complex weave {lampas / known in India and Persia as Kamhab}
Pinkish red and white
Late 17th early 18th century
"To God be the Victory"
Measurement 22"x15"

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Java

Ceremonial Calligraphic Batik
Cotton Wax Resist
Terracotta
Ceribon . Java
Pos. late 19th century
Designed with calligraphy, birds and Six Pointed Stars
Measurements: 27in x 66in; 69cm x 155cm

     
 
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