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A MAMLUK WEFT-FACED SILK WOVEN FRAGMENT, EGYPT, 14TH CENTURY. formerly Maurice Nahmann Collection



Price Realized £3,750 ($7,631)

Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
($6,105 - $10,175)

Sale Information
SALE 7428 —
Christies ART OF THE ISLAMIC AND INDIAN WORLD
23 October 2007
London, King Street

Lot Description
A MAMLUK WEFT-FACED SILK WOVEN FRAGMENT
EGYPT, 14TH CENTURY (CHECK THIS)
The simple woven linen ground woven in brilliantly coloured silks with a lattice of raspberry-pink, indigo, medium blue and lemon-yellow lozenges containing smaller coloured panels, divided by brown lines linking small ivory lozenges, various associated small tassles, original loom width, mounted on board
4 3/8 x 7½in. (11 x 19cm.)

 

Provenance
Maurice Nahmann Collection, reputedly from Fostat

Lot Notes
Probably a bag face, particularly in view of the traces of original selvage each side. The vivid colours and associated tassels resemble those of a delightful Mamluk silk applied patchwork bag with linen lining and embroidered with various colours, (Ashmolean Museum, no. 66, in Marianne Ellis, Embroideries and samplers from Islamic Egypt, Oxford, 2001, p.94).