Textile fragment with stylized peacock
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized peacock
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with light-blue flax and dark-blue silk; with remains of a seam 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
11 x 10.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 22 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.04 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.
EA1993.184
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Catalogue text
A stylized light-blue peacock is placed above a worn band of geometric design worked in dark-blue silk; on one side there are the remains of a stylized plant.
Fragments of sewing thread.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. 145 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 145
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