Textile fragment with two peacocks
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with two peacocks
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Associated place
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Date
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Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue silk
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Object type
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Dimensions
ground fabric 15.5 x 7.8 cm (height x width)
ground fabric 16 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 cm (thread diameter) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1993.66
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Catalogue text
Two birds are both facing to the right.
In: Barnes, Ruth and Marianne Ellis, ‘The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries’, 4 vols, 2001, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum
The detail shows how threaded outlines were used to define the shapes of these comic little peacocks worked in pattern darning over just two threads of the ground fabric.
In: Ellis, Marianne, Embroideries and Samplers from Islamic Egypt (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, in association with Greenville: Curious Works Press, 2001)
Further reading
Ellis, Marianne, Embroideries and Samplers from Islamic Egypt (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, in association with Greenville: Curious Works Press, 2001), no. 25 on p. 41, illus. p. 41
Barnes, Ruth and Marianne Ellis, ‘The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries’, 4 vols, 2001, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, p. 27 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 27
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