textile
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Object type
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No. of items
1
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1984.96
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Catalogue text
An octagon has an eight-petalled rosette at the centre which is framed by a continuous vine with flower heads.
The slanted counted filling stitches are worked in diagonal rows. There are fragmentary remains of a brown outline, possibly embroidered in stem stitch.
The radiocarbon analysis provided a date of 1237 AD +/- 36In: 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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