AN OTTOMAN EMBROIDERED SILVER-THREAD TEXTILE, MAQAM
Element of drapery from the Kaaba for Maqam Ibrahim or for Bab-al-Tawbah.
Black silk lampas embroidered with silver threads and applied with pieces of yellow and red silk.
‘Bi-smi llahi rahmani rahimi’
‘Remember We made the House a place of assembly for men and a place of safety; and take ye the station of Abraham as a place of prayer;’ (Al-Baqarah : 125).
105 by 105 cm.
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Element of drapery from the Kaaba for Maqam Ibrahim or for Bab-al-Tawbah.
Black silk lampas embroidered with silver threads and applied with pieces of yellow and red silk.
‘Bi-smi llahi rahmani rahimi’
‘Remember We made the House a place of assembly for men and a place of safety; and take ye the station of Abraham as a place of prayer;’ (Al-Baqarah : 125).
105 by 105 cm.