Textile fragment with birds, cartouches, and circles
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with birds, cartouches, and circles
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Associated place
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Date
11th - 12th century (1001 - 1200) -
Material and technique
cotton, decorated with black ink, and with traces of coloured pigment and gold leaf
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
15 x 14 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 36 / 34 threads/cm (thread count)
0.01 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.
EA1988.18
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Catalogue text
Two parallel bands and two birds are drawn in black outlines, with remains of painted blue, red, gold and brown. The smaller band is made up from long cartouches and circles; the circles are blue, the cartouches contain a golden tendril and leaves. The two birds face each other; they are naturalistically drawn.
The original accession card identifies the fragment as probably originating in Iraq, dating to the 11th/12th century.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, vol. iii, vol. i
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