Sampler with flowering plants, birds, trees, trefoils, and S-shapes
Details
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Title
Sampler with flowering plants, birds, trees, trefoils, and S-shapes
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with coloured silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
23 x 50 cm (warp x weft)
16 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 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.
EA1993.322
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Catalogue text
Sampler with partly-worked patterns of flowering plant motifs, a pair of confronting birds with trees, trefoils, S-shapes and geometric whitework bands.
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. 283 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 283
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