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Roundel textile fragment with quatrefoils
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Details
- Associated place
- Material and technique
- linen, embroidered with green, red, and yellow silk; with a rolled hem in flax
- Dimensions
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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)
- Material index
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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.
- EA1984.77
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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
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.
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Objects may have since been removed or replaced from a gallery. Click into an individual object record to confirm whether or not an object is currently on display. Our object location data is usually updated on a monthly basis, so contact the Jameel Study Centre if you are planning to visit the museum to see a particular Eastern Art object.
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