7043.
Silk Damask; ground, tawny; pattern, a cone-shaped floriation amid foliage and flowers. Sicilian, 15th century. 13-1/2 inches by 13 inches.
Both around the cone, as well as athwart the flowers, there are
attempts at Arabic sentences, but in letters so badly done as easily to
show the attempted cheat.
7044.
Silk Damask; ground, deep blue; pattern, six-sided panels filled in with conventional floriations, all in orange yellow. Spanish moresque, 15th century. 7 inches by 3-1/2 inches.
If not designed and wrought by Moorish hands, its Spanish weaver
worked after Saracenic feelings in the forms of its ornamentation.
7045.
Silk Damask; ground, amber, diapered in small lozenges; pattern, parrots in pairs outlined in blue and crimson, both which colours are almost faded, and having a border consisting of narrow parallel lines, some dark blue with white scrolls, others of gold thread, with deep blue scrolls. Oriental, late 12th century. 9 inches by 5-3/4 inches.
7045A.
Silk Border, torn off from the foregoing number. Both the one and the other are valuable proofs of the care taken by the Greek weavers, in the Greek islands, Greece proper, and in Syria, to give an elaborate design to the grounds of their silks.
