Part of a tunic front with geometric pattern and birds
Details
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Title
Part of a tunic front with geometric pattern and birds
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Associated place
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Date
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Material and technique
linen, embroidered with coloured silk; tassels; drawn-thread openwork; with seams in flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
50 x 34.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.1 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.
EA1993.333
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Catalogue text
A medallion with an eight-pointed star is attached to a V-shaped band with a geometric pattern of hooks and S-shapes; on each side is a medallion with diagonal stripes and a pair of birds at its base. Crescent shapes (?flowers) surround the neck.
The fragment is the neck opening of a tunic, and it includes a small raised collar. It has a radiocarbon date of 1460 AD +/- 34.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. 294 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 294
Ellis, Marianne, Embroideries and Samplers from Islamic Egypt (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, in association with Greenville: Curious Works Press, 2001), no. 63 on p. 90, illus. pp. 90-91
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