Woven Silk
14th or 15th century (made)
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Brocade, red satin ground with gold thread, blue green and white silks woven in two interlacing arabesque designs arranged within octagonal compartments and repeated in rows; small star shaped compartments filled with leaf ornament.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | woven silk |
| Brief description | 1400s, Hispano-Moresque |
| Physical description | Brocade, red satin ground with gold thread, blue green and white silks woven in two interlacing arabesque designs arranged within octagonal compartments and repeated in rows; small star shaped compartments filled with leaf ornament. |
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| Credit line | Given by Monsieur S. Baron |
| Object history | Given by Monsieur S. Baron of 2 Rue Grange Bateliere, Paris. Fragment taken from a chasuble in the collection of the artist Monsieur Madrazo of 32 Rue Beaujon, Paris. Date received from Stores: 15 April 1896. Neg. 36253 |
| Historical context | Samples of coloured threads from this object have been taken and are being analysed as part of a collaboration between the V&A and the Spanish Research project "Caracterización de als producciones textiles de la Antigüedad Tardía y Edad Media temprana: tejidos coptos, sasánidas, bizantinos e hispanomusulmanes en las colecciones públicas españolas" ("Characterization of Late Antique and Early Medieval textile production: Coptic, Sasanian, Byzantine and Spanish Muslim textiles in Spanish national collections") (HAR2008-04161) directed by Dr Laura Rodríguez Peinado, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Dpt. de Historia del Arte I (Medieval). |
| Bibliographic reference | Mariam Rosser-Owen, Islamic Arts from Spain, London, 2010, p.45. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 114-1896 |
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| Record created | November 12, 2008 |
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