Cap with fleur-de-lys
Details
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Title
Cap with fleur-de-lys
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Associated place
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Date
late 13th century - early 14th century
Mamluk Period (1250 - 1517) -
Material and technique
silk, dyed blue, quilted, with gilded leather appliqué, and embroidered with red and green silk and gilded metal thread; linen lining
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Object type
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Dimensions
12 cm (height)
19 cm (diameter)
ground fabric (silk), along length/width 16 / 21 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric (linen), along length/width 12 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric (silk) 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
ground fabric (linen) 0.1 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.01 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.
EA1984.368
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Catalogue text
A blue silk cap with a linen lining has a band embroidered with crossed diagonal lines and a ?plant, as well as with gold leather strips appliquéd. The crown of the cap is divided into two halves, each with a circle containing a star, and gold appliqué.
The design of the band is mainly defined by quilting. The original accession card suggests that the cap is 19th century, possibly from North Africa.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. iii, vol. i p. 15 n. 2, vol. i
Ellis, Marianne, Embroideries and Samplers from Islamic Egypt (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, in association with Greenville: Curious Works Press, 2001), no. 64 on p. 92, p. 10, illus. p. 92
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