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Five Fez silk embroidered divan cushion covers, North Morocco
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3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description
- Five Fez silk embroidered divan cushion covers
- illustrated cover approximately 92 by 61cm;
- 3ft. by 2ft.
in terz del ghorza, (point stitch), three worked in single colour madder red, two more unusually in two colour embroidery: one in dark chestnut with panels in brown-red; the illustrated lot with the main panels in dark crimson, flanked by bands of madder red
Catalogue Note
Embroideries formed an integral part of the decoration of urban homes, a tradition which carried on well into the 20th century: please see Denamur, Isabelle, Moroccan Textile Embroidery, Paris, 2003, p.104, for a photograph by Jean Besancenot (1902-1992), of 1930, Woman in a salon, Fez, showing a divan with embroidered cushions.