Three silk lampas panels, Central Asia or Persia, possibly Seljuq, 12th / 13th century, composed of three silk panels, each golden ground woven in blue with repeating roundels decorated with mirroring birds, each panel very approximately 135cm x 27cm, framed?Provenance: Christie's London, 10 April 2014, lot 39 Christie's London, 26 April 2005, lot 54 UK art market 2000The motif of a pair of confronted or addorsed animals is found in Sassanian and Sogdian textiles and remained popular in Central Asia until the fourteenth century, see for example a garment decorated with confronting ducks within pearl roundels dated attributed to Sogdian Central Asia, 8th century, now in the Pritzker Collection, illustrated in L. Mackie, Symbols of Power, 2015, p.68, no.2.29. A fragment of a silk brocade excavated in Khara Khorum and dated to the 13th century features two similar confronting birds, but lacks the pearl roundels (illustrated in A. E. Wardwell, 'Two Silk and Gold Textiles of the Early Mongol Period' in The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1992, Vol. 79, No. 10, p.367, fig.13a). The stylised vegetal decoration which fills the roundel and the ground is close to the one on a Seljuq riding coat dated to the first half of the 13th century now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv.no.2008.346a-c.???? Condition Report: ?Condition Report Disclaimer