£ 72.00
113 x 111 cm // 3ft 8" x 3ft 8"
Silk embroidery on a silk/cotton plaid.
'Aghabani' is the name given to Levantine / Syrian silk embroideries. The name purportedly from two Aleppo families said to have started this type of work, Al-Agha and Al-Bani. Worked in yellow silk chain stitch on a fine lightweight silk ground following an ink drawing. From another piece it was possible to read in badly written Arabic script the word ﺣَﻠَﺐ 'Haleb' (Aleppo) proving attribution.
• 1950s (French colonial Syria)
Ref. 16907
