A MOROCCAN SILK SASH, 16TH-17TH CENTURY

Reference: ART400614

A Moroccan sash woven in red, yellow, purple, and brown silk threads, with a symmetrical 'Nasrid style' design of ogivals enclosing rosette medallions and arcades of confronting scrolls on a ground of saz and split and full palmettes reserved in red, bordered by stellar medallions and tassels, further register with saz, split and full palmette scrolls reserved with cloudband scroll borders 29 by 206.5 cm.