TWO PANELS OF NAKSHE
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
Iran, 19th century

The ground finely and intricately worked predominantly in teal, peach, and black silks in alternate bands of narrow and wide diagonal stripes with floral repeats, the borders of fine silk ivory ground brocaded with a scrolling floral frieze in pastels, hemmed with bias-cut striped silk band, lined in later cloth, 80cm x 66cm; and another, similar, 62cm x 40cm.