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Velvet panel

Artist: Persian

Location: Victoria and Albert Museum

Date: 1586 - 1628

Materials: velvet

Dimensions: 160 x 76 cm

Grant:

Amount Paid: £250 (Total: £2,700)

Vendor: Schwaiger; Spanish Art Gallery

Review number: 435 (1923)

Provenance:
Originallly from the court of Sha Abbas the Great.

Description:
Embroidered with the image of a youth holding a flower in a garden. Ground: cloth of gold; silver thread and silk velvet pile. A border of gold tissue added later.

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