A CIRCULAR EMBROIDERED VELVET PANEL Northern Iran, 19th century The joined cherry red silk velvet ground delicately embroidered in yellow metallic thread wound around a silk core, with a floral arrangement in an octagonal format around a sun-rayed central flower, the border similarly worked with a scrolling floral tendril, the panel edged with a croched chevron silk band in yellow, green, and yellow, backed and lined with red satin silk pencil striped with white, 84cm diameter.