A NASRID WOVEN SILK PANEL, SPAIN, 15TH CENTURY A NASRID WOVEN SILK PANEL, SPAIN, 15TH CENTURY A NASRID WOVEN SILK PANEL, SPAIN, 15TH CENTURY

A NASRID WOVEN SILK PANEL, SPAIN, 15TH CENTURY

Reference: ART3004552

Of rectangular form, woven in red, yellow and white silk with floral leafy sprays and lotus flower heads decorated with Arabic calligraphy, between ogival lattice with an eight-shaped star. Inscriptions: Kalimat al-Tawhid
66 by 26 cm.

CATALOGUE NOTE
The centre of production for fine luxurious textiles made for the Nasrid court was Granada. According to the historian al-Maqqari, the city was referred to as 'the Damascus of the west', due to the high quality of its silks (Miriam Rosser-Owen, Islamic Arts from Spain, p. 61).