Prayer mat

Prayer mat of white cotton decorated with white silk embroidery, whitework, and openwork depicting ewers, symbolic hands and religious inscriptions: Middle East, Iran, 16th or 17th century

Prayer mat

Prayer mat, silk, embroidered with a floral design and a cartouche shaped like a prayer stone and containing an Arabic inscription, flanked by two hands, all underneath an arch, surrounded by a border of alternating peonies and rosettes: West Asia, Iran, 1720 - 1725