BUKHARA, UZBEKISTAN, MID-19TH CENTURY

This suzani, which is composed of seven panels, would have been simultaneously embroidered by different women in a family who were working according to a pattern drawn out before the panels were joined together. A comparable suzani, of smaller size, similarly decorated with a variety of single flowers within a diamond lattice formed of diagonal green twigs, and a border with a scrolling vine around larger circular blooms, sold at Rippon Boswell, Wiesbaden, 24 November 2012, lot 119. For other suzanis attributed to the Bukhara region which have sold in these Rooms, see 26 April, 2018, lot 206; 25 October 2018, lots 232, 276, 279.