of rectangular form, woven in red, yellow, green and white silk with a central panel containing a repeat design of eight-petalled flowerheads, above and below two bands of geometric designs, mounted
87 x 45 cm.

Footnotes

The centre of production for fine luxurious textiles made for the Nasrid court was Granada. According to the historian al-Maqqari, the city was referred to as 'the Damascus of the west', due to the high quality of its silks (Miriam Rosser-Owen, Islamic Arts from Spain, p. 61). The geometric designs in the border panels of the present lot recall the intricate tile mosaics which line the walls of the Nasrid apartments at the Alhambra.

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A Nasrid woven silk Panel Spain, 15th Century

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