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LOT 1385
Western Asiatic Textile with Gold Embroidery
19TH-20TH CENTURY A.D.
119 5/8 in. (1.04 kg, 304 cm wide).
A roughly semi-circular netted fabric with intricately embroidered leaves and tendrils, floral motifs to the border. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Private collection of a London gentleman, acquired between 1965-2020.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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The item was possibly meant to be what the Romans called a defixio or 'curse tablet', on which the magical malediction was recorded and then shut away (by being tightly rolled up) so that the victim could not find it or change it.