BEAU BANDEAU À L'INSCRIPTION SOUFIE Lot n° 118

NORTH AFRICA, MOROCCO, late 18th-early 19th CENTURY Probably from an important hanging or portière. In velvet lined with cotton canvas and brocaded with gold and silver thread, decorated with two rectangular registers inscribed in Maghribi thuluth, the triangular ends trimmed with beautiful stylized fleurons. Text: يا للرجال عليکم حملتی حسبت ان الضعیف علی الاجواد محمول قد جئتکم بانکسار نحو حيکم ارجو القبول فقولو انت مقبول Length : 128 cm. Width: 8 cm.