SIX COVERS, INCLUDING THREE MIRROR COVERS
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE LONDON COLLECTOR
Iran, 18th and 19th centuries

Comprising three mirror covers, of narrow rectangular shape, one with a brocaded field with bazuband (armband) trellis grid containing floral motifs, within multiple narrow borders, stiffened and backed with printed red cotton, and a near pair of similar mirror covers, later in date, the tops with brocaded gilt ribbons, the largest 24cm x 19.5cm; and three covers of woven silk brocades, mostly of square shape, one with 19th-century bird and flower ribbon, another with bazuband gridwork in the central panel, and the third with striped red and purple field brocaded with gilt thread in stylised geometric motifs, in green and red brocaded sides and corners, in blue satin bias-cut edging, lined in European cotton printed with parallel floral trellises, the largest 31cm x 31cm.