TWO PANELS OF BROCADED SILK
Iran, 17th - 18th century and later

A joined Safavid cover of pale yellow dress silk, finely brocaded in coloured silks and metal thread with an ‘armband’ grid pattern in-filled with flowerheads in alternating colourways, border of woven gold and silver tape, and lined in hot pink puce satin silk, with an old collection tag reading 12866 and the measurements, 74.5cm x 46cm; and another cover, a Safavid-revival of the Qajar period, the panel of pale pink silk, brocaded with four horizontal rows of repeating small flowering buti, the outer border made of snippets and cuts from three different textiles including an embroidered dark blue buti panel, corners in yellow woven silk, edged with blue bias-cut cotton trim, lined in coarse pale brown printed cotton with alternating rows of juxtaposed white roundels with a central dot, stitched with a white cotton patch inscribed in blue ink with an old inventory number No. 1017 / 16, and a tag 12868, 72cm x 57.5cm.