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拍品專文
This impressive embroidery can be paralleled with examples identified as "large medallion" suzanis. Although the multiple rosettes visible here differ from the impressive hexagonal medallions from which the group takes its name, they relate to these embroideries and can be associated with the same workshop (Ernst J. Grube, Keshte, Central Asian the same workshop (Ernst J. Grube, Keshte, Central Asian Embroideries, The Marshall and Marilyn R. Wolf Collection, New York, 2003, cat.2). Here, the large hexagonal medallion has been replaced by two rosettes framed by two mihrab-type niches in the central rectangular field. The present panel closely relates to an embroidery in the Marshall and Marilyn R. Wolf collection (op.cit, cat.2).
From this design, identified as Group D by Michael Frances, four examples are known, three of which are published in Michael Frances, Bukhara, London, 2000. One is in Wolf Collection example mentioned above, (Frances, op.cit, p.72); the second is a susani in London (pl.d and the third is in Nordrhein-Westfahlen (p.72). The fourth one was sold in Rippon Boswell, 24 May 1994, lot 124.
For other "large medallion" suzanis, see Rachel Hasson, Flowering Gardens Along the Silk Road, Embroidered Textiles from Uzbekistan, Jerusalem, 2001, pp.13-15.
From this design, identified as Group D by Michael Frances, four examples are known, three of which are published in Michael Frances, Bukhara, London, 2000. One is in Wolf Collection example mentioned above, (Frances, op.cit, p.72); the second is a susani in London (pl.d and the third is in Nordrhein-Westfahlen (p.72). The fourth one was sold in Rippon Boswell, 24 May 1994, lot 124.
For other "large medallion" suzanis, see Rachel Hasson, Flowering Gardens Along the Silk Road, Embroidered Textiles from Uzbekistan, Jerusalem, 2001, pp.13-15.