GRAND ANTIQUE FULLY SILK HANDMADE SUZANI cr.1900. #1541 Museum very Old piece, rarity, Masterpiece, 1900. Start Price USD 2,100.00 Current Price USD 2,100.00 Time Left 13 days 11 hours 14 minutes Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, October 23, 2008 End Time Wednesday, January 21, 2009 Location Bukhara See more about 'GRAND ANTIQUE FULLY SILK HANDMADE SUZANI cr.1900. #1541' Description GRAND ANTIQUE UZBEK JIZZAKH FULLY SILK HANDMADE EMBROIDERED SUZANI - Ancient Rare Suzani Now you are bidding the long traditional Uzbek Ancient - Suzani . Suzani from the Uzbek language means “embroidered with a needle”. Hand-emroidery with silk threads on home-made cotton fabric. It is from JIZZAKH. Hand-embroidery of JIZZAKH and Ferghana Valley too differs by an amazing, hardly appreciable stitches and wonderful delicate restrained colours. You can see skilful alternation of gentle and bright colours: pink passes in red and in pink again; dark claret in dark green, yellow in pink and in white, etc. Fine designed thin black line gives clearity to the pattern and it demarcates separate subjects. IT NEEDED TREMENDOUS ENERGY AND A LONG TIME TO MAKE! The real age of the item is 1900 . It is the present Museum piece, Such Suzani very seldom to find in Uzbekistan, such Suzani are stored in Greater Museums of the world in Such as the London museum of applied arts of Asia, in Russian Hermitage, a department of Ethnography. Quite often such Suzani to be exposed on World auctions on which the prices reach $5000-$7000 SIZE: 116 X 105 Inches ( 290 x 262 cm )Condition: GOOD Want to know more about Uzbek Applied Arts and to get - Come in My Store "Antiquarian Textiles" !!! Payment I accept; PayPal , Money Orders , Cashiers check , Personal check .After auction's end I will send the instructions about payment to your email, registered on eBay. If you will not receive congratulation letter please contact me. Shipping: Handling and airmail anywhere in the world costs $40 . For north America and Europe, delivery will normally be within 10-15 works days of receipt of payment. (Delivery elsewhere may take a little longer.) I'm PayPal Verified Place a Bid!