FIRST PANEL FLIP

Moving right along on my latest. I’m just past the point of flipping the frame over. I’ve got all the black double running outlines for the main motif done. That’s not uncommon for Azemmour Cluster pieces, but is not a usual treatment for these larger ones. In the larger museum snippets they are usually outlined in the same color as the voided ground. In the later multicolor ones, anything goes. But it is more common for the smaller ones – especially the ones with birds and foliage or small urns. Since this is not intended to be a fully historically accurate piece, I feel free to take liberties. As for specific references for the pomegranate variants of the spider flower, I point you to these, both collected around the turn of the 20th century, and both formerly attributed as being Italian works of the 1600s.Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Accession 11.2880, Newly attributed to Azemmour, 18th century.https://collections.mfa.org/objects/68407/tent-stitch?ctx=4b923968-ddd5-426e-a76c-6afa55e9…