Roundel textile fragment with quatrefoils

Title

Roundel textile fragment with quatrefoils
Associated place

Egypt (find spot)

Fustat (possible) (possible find spot)

Anatolia (possible) (possible place of creation)
Date

Mamluk Period (1250 - 1517)
Material and technique

linen, embroidered with green, red, and yellow silk; with a rolled hem in flax
Material index

linen;

silk;

flax
Technique index

plain woven;

embroidered;

stitched
Object type

roundel;

jar-cover;

textile
Dimensions

10 x 9.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 28 / 28 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Eastern Art
Accession no.

EA1984.77

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Catalogue text

A roundel with a fine rolled hem all around, with a yellow and red border encircling four green quatrefoils. Each of these contains a central red dot and four red crescents. Linked red or yellow half-palmettes are arranged to form circular shapes, set into the spaces between the quatrefoils; there were five of these circles originally, of which four remain.

In: Barnes, Ruth and Marianne Ellis, ‘The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries’, 4 vols, 2001, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum

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