TWO SILVER THREAD EMBROIDERED PANELS Deccan, Central India, 18th - 19th century Possibly fragments of religious processional hangings, the semi-circular grounds entirely worked in couched silver thread wound around a silk core to create a number of patterns, one with a raised crescent-shaped motif beneath an invocation to Allah in ArabicYa Alem ul Khofiyyat (O Savant of the Hidden World) embroidered in turquoise blue glass beads; and the other with an invocation in Arabic in dark blue glass beads, above the names of the Five Holy Beings (Allah, Mohammad, Ali, Fatima, Hassan, Hossein) in turquoise blue beads, 20cm and 23cm long.