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Textile fragment with blazon
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Details
- Associated place
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Near East (place of creation)
- Date
- late 13th century - early 14th century
- Material and technique
- linen, dyed blue; leather appliqué covered with paper or felt, embroidered with yellow, blue, and brown silk
- Dimensions
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11.5 x 7.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.1 cm (thread diameter)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.363
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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. iii, illus. vol. i
Location
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Lower ground floor | Room 5 | Textiles
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Lower ground floor | Room 5 | Textiles
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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
A blazon is sewn onto a blue linen ground. The shield contains a white chalice, outlined in blue against a yellow ground. It is tripartite, with the upper and lower band in brown.
The embroidery fills the entire background of the circle. A white paper or felt backing is placed underneath the embroidery, and it is partly left exposed, as e.g. to shape the chalice. The blazon has a leather backing on the reverse.
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