RED SILK LAMPAS WITH CALLIGRAPHIC DECOR, FROM THE INTERIOR L - Lot 29

RED SILK LAMPAS WITH CALLIGRAPHIC DECOR, FROM THE INTERIOR LINING OF THE KA'ABA IN MECQUE, 20th CENTURY. Rectangular in shape, decorated with calligraphic, concentric zig-zag bands, cream on red ground, in naskh and muhaqqaq of large and smaller sizes. unmounted, unlined. Presents the original seam linking the various lais, deployed to cover the large interior spaces of the Ka'aba. 110.5 x 82.5cm. Provenance: Acquired from Shaykh 'Umar Shaybi, keeper of the keys to Mecca. Another panel of the same type, described as dating from the 17th-18th centuries, is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (32.100.460), and another in the collection of Nasser D. Khalili in London, see : Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca, SNOECK GENT, 2014, p. 134. For very similar but smaller fragments sold at auction, see: Artcurial, Archéologie & Arts d'Orient, May 21, 2025, lot 91. And Millon, Arts d'Orient & Orientalisme, December 2, 2019, lot 386.