Cover of green silk velvet, embroidered in various short and crossing stitches with coloured silks and silver-gilt thread (much rubbed) with a circular compartment in the centre, containing a looping geometrical blossom device surrounded by an Arabic inscription, and set within a surrounding geometric interlacing stem framework, beyond which at either end is a small cartouche containing another Arabic inscription set in the midst of a variety of blossom and cross forms, symmetrically arranged and filled in with floral devices, crosses, birds, and a figure. The border is composed of closely-repeated elongated key forms surmounted by groups of small crescents. <i>Tunisian</i> 18th century. L. 2 ft. 11.5 in, W. 21.75 in.
Mr. A. Cole's Revise. [1896]