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Lot 55*,R

An embroidered silk cap
Persia, 17th Century

23 May 2023, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£2,000 - £3,000

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An embroidered silk cap
Persia, 17th Century

of rounded form constructed in quilted bands filled with wool, embroidered in polychrome with a repeat design of floral motifs on a blue ground, the interior with printed cotton band
24 cm. diam.

Footnotes

For a tall cap woven in similar colours dated to the 14th/ 15th Century see Friedrich Spuhler, Early Islamic Textiles, London 2020, p. 56, cat. 22.

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