A Suzani embroidery, Uzbekistan

Six cotton panels sewn together with silk embroidery. Some dark browns oxidized but other embroidery intact. Stains to ground. Later dark blue cotton banding sewn on reverse along the edges on all four sides. No backing. Should enhance with careful cleaning.
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The charming and seemingly random way the brown-and-light blue leaves are sprinkled among the red palmettes adds a sense of spontaneity to the otherwise systematic layout of the field of this embroidery. The vacant vertical lines between the rows of palmettes further add to this orderly arrangement while adding spaciousness, all of which is particularly well framed and balanced by the densely-worked and robust border.