ID 1033078
Lot 129 | A SILK AND METAL-THREAD FRAGMENT OF A HIZAM FROM THE HOLY KA'ABA
Estimate value
£ 7 000 – 10 000
OTTOMAN EGYPT, LATE 19TH CENTURY
The black silk ground embroidered with gilt-metal and silver thread, a large central roundel containing inscriptions in knotted thuluth in a quatrefoil arrangement, spandrels with embroidered leaf-motifs and a band each side with a scrolling leafy meander, mounted
27 ½ x 33 ¼in. (69.8 x 84.5cm.)
Provenance
Anon sale, Bonhams & Brooks, London, 2 May 2001, lot 194
| Medium: | Textile |
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| Place of origin: | Egypt, Africa, Ottoman Empire |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Medium: | Textile |
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| Place of origin: | Egypt, Africa, Ottoman Empire |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
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