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Textile fragment with chalices, fish, and inscription
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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 blue cotton; additional blue check fabric, possibly linen; with stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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59 x 50 cm max. (warp x weft)
15 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.102
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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
Single chalices and fish, each containing an inscription, have been embroidered over a large textile. There also is a wide band of chevrons, with borders of a continuous vine and leaves.
The textile has two selvedges; in addition a piece of loosely woven ?linen with a blue check design is sewn into one corner.
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