Asset ID:
8229
CMS Object ID:
240062
Accession Number:
EA1993.248
Title:
Textile fragment with peacocks and heart-shaped trees
Object Name:
textile
Object dating:
Fatimid Period (AD 909 - 1171)
Associated place(s):
Egypt (find spot) ; Fustat (find spot) ; Near East (place of creation)
Dimensions:
27 x 24.5 cm max. (length x width) ; along length/width 15 / 16 threads/cm (thread count) ; ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter) ; additional fibre, embroidery 0.04 cm (thread diameter)
Materials/ techniques:
linen, embroidered with coloured silk
Responsible department:
Eastern Art
Single/ multiple object:
Single
Asset copyright notice:
© Ashmolean Museum
View:
Front
Key words:
- a.d
- again
- background
- band
- bands
- birds
- blue
- body
- bride
- cairo
- category
- century
- collection
- colourful
- creatures
- cushions
- design
- documents
- double
- dowry
- ea1984.508
- early
- embroideries
- embroidery
- eye
- fashion
- fatimid
- foot
- four-footed
- fragment
- fragments
- front
- furnishings
- genizah
- head
- heart-shaped
- hexagons
- homes
- idea
- jewish
- kuhnel
- large
- left
- legs
- linen
- lions
- little
- looked
- mirror-image
- narrow
- newberry
- no.3
- old
- pairs
- part
- paws
- peacocks
- piece
- pink
- plants
- previous
- raised
- shapes
- silk
- similar
- splendid
- split
- stitch
- synagogue
- tall
- traders
- tree
- trees
- underneath
- yellow
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