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A silk samit fragment, Near East, 11th-12th century
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description
- textile
woven with red, cream and brown silk threads with confronting birds supported on a squared-off split-palmette pedestal enclosed within a foliate roundel, composite roundels above and below with rosette and heart-shape motifs
Catalogue Note
A fragment with a similar angular stylisation of the birds and pedestal is in the David Collection and is attributed to the Middle East and dated to the eleventh or twelfth centuries (von Folsach 2001, p.370, no.632).