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Lot 135

A Tashkent silk embroidered linen yulduz palyak panel (susani)
Central Asia, 19th Century

11 June 2020, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£2,000 - £3,000

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A Tashkent silk embroidered linen yulduz palyak panel (susani)
Central Asia, 19th Century

of rectangular form, embroidered entirely in polychrome silks with five octagonal cartouches containing star motifs interspersed by rectangles containing flowerheads, the border with an undulating vine, later fabric edging
240 x 180 cm.

Footnotes

For a very similar yulduz palyak in the State Museum of Applied Arts, Tashkent, see C. Sumner and G. Petherbridge, Bright Flowers: textiles and ceramics of Central Asia, p. 77.

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