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Printed cotton with blue, red and brownish yellow on a white ground, lined with a red cotton cloth with small white saz patterns.
In the center, a niche motif (mihrab?) in whichs’ center there is a “triangle”, topped by a vase with a boquet the vase is flanked by two vines, growing out from the triangular hill” on which the vase is placed. These three vines fill the background of the central nich with flowers. The niche, polylobed and topped by a tulip. Its upper part is framed with brownish yellow with a floral vine and both long sides are framed with blue and red squares and then flanked by cypresses, then again a frame with rectsagles filled with a polylobed niche motif featuring a boquet, then again the cypresse with a succession of floral cartouches. The lower parts ends with a register filled with a big floral vine. The upper part has a field with floral decoration and niche motifs, in the center a cartouche containing an inscription. Over this is a framing register and floral finials.

Inventory number????? Ref. Nils G.Wollins’ Inventory list of the Björkman collection.
Inscription says? Sujjâd liannabî Alî wa Muhammad. ? posterne devant/soit humble devant la révelation d’Ali et Muhammad.
Flyttas till Etnografiska.