Textile fragment with chalices, fish, and inscription
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with chalices, fish, and inscription
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue cotton; additional blue check fabric, possibly linen; 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
59 x 50 cm max. (warp x weft)
15 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 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.
EA1984.102
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Catalogue text
Single chalices and fish, each containing an inscription, have been embroidered over a large textile. There also is a wide band of chevrons, with borders of a continuous vine and leaves.
The textile has two selvedges; in addition a piece of loosely woven ?linen with a blue check design is sewn into one corner.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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