textile
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Object type
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No. of items
1
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1993.245
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Catalogue text
Remains of a tree with a pair of confronting birds. The tree has a red outline and yellow (possibly formerly green) branches; the birds are blue with red wings.
The C-14 result dates the fragment 990 AD +/- 60.In: Barnes, Ruth and Marianne Ellis, ‘The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries’, 4 vols, 2001, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum
Further reading
Barnes, Ruth and Marianne Ellis, ‘The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries’, 4 vols, 2001, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, p. 205 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 206
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