Textile fragment with plant, circle, and leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with plant, circle, and leaves
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
possibly cotton, embroidered with red and blue silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
26 x 11.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 30 / 27 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.01 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.
EA1993.258
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Catalogue text
A large, red plant with a circle at the base, containing a small red and blue plant; the large plant has two serrated leaves and the remains of an outside circular line.
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. 219 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 219
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