AN ARMENIAN EMBROIDERED LENGTH
Armenia, Ottoman Provinces, 19th century

Of rectangular shape, the ground of oblong indigo cotton worked in twisted coloured silks in red, pink, yellow, pale blue, and off white with a design reminiscent of Ottoman chatma panels, enhanced with a central circular medallion framed within quarter-circles at each corner, the outer borders with further repeating circular motifs, with later lining, 104cm x 48cm.