A SAFAVID SILK TOMB COVER FRAGMENTIRAN, CIRCA 1700A SAFAVID SILK TOMB COVER FRAGMENTIRAN, CIRCA 1700With a central register of blue ground decorated with ivory cartouches containing thuluth inscriptions, stylised half carnations around, framed by vertical yellow ground calligraphic cartouches separated by split palmettes, an area of plain red ground to one side, couched to a fabric mount and glazedFragment 20 1/2 x 20 1/4in. (52 x 51.5cm.); mount 23 3/4 x 23 3/4in. (60.5 x 60.5cm.)Inscriptions:In the small, yellow cartouches: ya husayn-i mazlum, 'O Husayn, the oppressed!'In the large cartouche an undeciphered inscription containing the names of Husayn and 'Ali.Textiles of this kind were made as tomb covers or hangings as tributes for the shrines of honoured or holy men. A similar textile is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (inv.no.1922-22-90; published in Sheila R. Canby, Shah ‘Abbas. The Remaking of Iran, exhibition catalogue, London, 2009, pp.238-39, no.116). It shares with ours identical format and decoration but with an inverted colour scheme. The calligraphy there was also bordered by elegant split-palmette leaves and rows of quatrefoils surrounded by single leaves. Jon Thompson suggested that the stylised carnations that appear in white on the blue ground of our textile are a typical Ottoman motif. However they appear in an album of floral drawings with illustrations by Safavid artists which are thought have been the designs for textiles as well as in other Safavid textiles themselves (Canby, op.cit., p.234, no.113). Thompson proposed that a silk textile in Doha that also bore inscriptions and carnations was made for export to the Ottoman world. The overtly Shi’ite invocations here however, and on the Philadelphia textile indicate that it was more likely made for a Shi’ite tomb or shrine.细节 A SAFAVID SILK TOMB COVER FRAGMENTIRAN, CIRCA 1700With a central register of blue ground decorated with ivory cartouches containing thuluth inscriptions, stylised half carnations around, framed by vertical yellow ground calligraphic cartouches separated by split palmettes, an area of plain red ground to one side, couched to a fabric mount and glazedFragment 20 1/2 x 20 1/4in. (52 x 51.5cm.); mount 23 3/4 x 23 3/4in. (60.5 x 60.5cm.) 来源 Antike Textilien und Sammlerteppiche, Rudolf Mangisch, Galerie und Auktionshaus, Zurich, 16 November 1991, nr. 80 注意事项 The USA prohibits the purchase by US persons of Iranian-origin “works of conventional craftsmanship” such as carpets, textiles, decorative objects, and scientific instruments. The US sanctions apply to US persons regardless of the location of the transaction or the shipping intentions of the US person. For this reason, Christie’s will not accept bids by US persons on this lot. Non-US persons wishing to import this lot into the USA are advised that they will need to apply for an OFAC licence and that this can take many months to be granted.