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Textile fragment with linked circles, inscription, and possibly a lion
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Details
- Associated place
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Near East (place of creation)
- Date
- 10th - 15th century AD
- Material and technique
- linen, embroidered with red and blue silk
- Dimensions
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17.5 x 9.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 26 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 cm min. (thread diameter)
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.78
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Further reading
Barnes, Ruth and Marianne Ellis, ‘The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries’, 4 vols, 2001, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, cat. vol. ii, illus. vol. i
Location
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- currently in research collection
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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
Only a few fibres of silk are left in the fabric, but the pouncing marks define the design. It had linked circles, each one overlapped by six further circles and with an eight-lobed rosette at the centre, possibly once containing a small lion. The overlapping sections, which are similar to those in EA1984.76, are filled with an inscription which reads 'al-ral'.
The embroidery is very fragmentary, but it is likely to have been laid threads couched down over surface satin filling stitches.
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