Iran: Woven silk textile with the inscrption in Arabic Kufi: 'al-mulk l-illah', or 'all power belongs to God'.

The provenance of this textile is uncertain, but motifs with eagles, falcons, lions, and other predators are generally associated with a princely iconography; the becomingly modest inscription on this textile also suggests a princely context.

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