Antique Persian Yazd Silk Textile
No. 25443
Persia, Early 20th Century
3 ft. 10 in. x 6 ft. 3 in.
(1.16 x 1.89 m)
An antique Persian Yazd Silk Textile. The scarlet field displays three cypresses, the central one larger and vertically striped, and the side trees are smaller and bird-topped. Two further bulbuls perch at the point of the central cypress and two additional lesser cypresses decorate the spandrels above the niche-shaped field. The bottom border is lacking, but the piece is inscribed. This type of silk ikat velvet is characteristic of Yazd in SE Persia.
- Hand-woven in Persia
- Silk
- One-of-a-kind
