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Lot 40*

Two woven silk fragments
Middle East, 11th/ 12th Century
(2)

23 May 2023, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £5,120 inc. premium

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Two woven silk fragments
Middle East, 11th/ 12th Century

each of irregular form, woven in blue and polychrome silks with a repeat design of baluster-like motifs, the borders with a band of panels filled with abstract vegetal motifs, above bands of circle motifs, one with a band of inscriptions in kufic
the larger 58.5 cm. max.(2)

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Inscriptions: repeat of al-mulk in both positive and negative.

Two fragments attributed to the 11th or 12th Century woven in similar colours and bearing the inscription al-mulk li'-llah , 'kingdom is God's', are in the David Collection, Copenhagen (25/1992). Possible places of manufacture, in light of the kufic inscriptions, are thought to be Persia, Iraq, Syria or Egypt.

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