Textile fragment with linked circles, inscription, and possibly a lion
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked circles, inscription, and possibly a lion
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with red and blue silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
17.5 x 9.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 26 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 cm min. (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.
EA1984.78
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Catalogue text
Only a few fibres of silk are left in the fabric, but the pouncing marks define the design. It had linked circles, each one overlapped by six further circles and with an eight-lobed rosette at the centre, possibly once containing a small lion. The overlapping sections, which are similar to those in EA1984.76, are filled with an inscription which reads 'al-ral'.
The embroidery is very fragmentary, but it is likely to have been laid threads couched down over surface satin filling stitches.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. ii, vol. i
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