Textile fragment with lion, possibly from a standard
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Title
Textile fragment with lion, possibly from a standard
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Associated place
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Date
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Material and technique
cotton, dyed blue, with white cotton appliqué; with stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
47 x 39 cm (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 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.
EA1984.137
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Catalogue text
A large blue field with a white applique lion at the centre surrounded by four white trefoils. The corners of the field hold trefoils, and there is a white border all around.
The textile was possibly part of a standard or other kind of display textile.
The uncalibrated radiocarbon date is 920 AD +/- 36, but the calibrated result of 980 to 1160 suggests a later date, well into the Fatimid era. On stylistic grounds this is likely.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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