Embroidered Textile with Prayer Niche (suzani with mihrab)
Uzbec or Tadjic tribes of Central Asia, 1800-1899
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Embroidered Textile with Prayer Niche (suzani with mihrab)
Uzbec or Tadjic tribes of Central Asia, 1800-1899
Physical Qualities
Cotton, silk, 115 1/2 × 69 1/4 in. (293.4 × 175.9 cm.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.1986.13
Large hanging or prayer mat embroidered in colored silks. Features large abstract floral roundels with leaf-like surrounds arranged in an architectural framework around a plain mihrab (prayer niche). Colors include violet-red, blue, gold, green, black, terracotta brown. Small floral pendant is suspended from top of mihrab. Not lined. Border on reverse is bound in multicolored silk (?) ikat. Also known as Bokhara. See Clabburn, p. 33.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1950; Etta Cone, Baltimore, Maryland
A. Jones, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, "Textiles from the Cone Collection," September 2 - November 23, 1986, no catalogue.
Markings: Embroidered tag (silver on black ground) "Claribel Cone" sewn to upper right hand corner of the reverse side. Lower right corner of mihrab in black ink : (see Accession Worksheet in file) 1--07 1-0 (marks not very legible). Lower right corner of djoinamaz in brown ink: "445" and "I55" (not completely legible)
