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Textile fragment with lion, possibly from a standard
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Details
- Associated place
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Near East (place of creation)
- Date
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2nd half of the 10th century - 1st half of the 12th century AD
Fatimid Period (AD 909 - 1171)
- Material and technique
- cotton, dyed blue, with white cotton appliqué; with stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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47 x 39 cm (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 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.
- EA1984.137
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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 large blue field with a white applique lion at the centre surrounded by four white trefoils. The corners of the field hold trefoils, and there is a white border all around.
The textile was possibly part of a standard or other kind of display textile.
The uncalibrated radiocarbon date is 920 AD +/- 36, but the calibrated result of 980 to 1160 suggests a later date, well into the Fatimid era. On stylistic grounds this is likely.
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