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Woven Silk and Gold

14th to 15th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Brocade silk, woven in blue and white and gold thread on a red silk ground with a diaper pattern consisting of two repeating eight-pointed stars, placed in alternating horizontal rows and separated by geometrical devices.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
woven silk
Brief description
1400s, Hispano-Moresque; Lampas, eight-pointed stars
Physical description
Brocade silk, woven in blue and white and gold thread on a red silk ground with a diaper pattern consisting of two repeating eight-pointed stars, placed in alternating horizontal rows and separated by geometrical devices.
Dimensions
  • Length: 26in
  • Width: 10.14in
Styles
Object history
Purchased for £8 from Messrs. J. Sasson & Co. Received 9 Dec 1892.

Loaned for Art of Islam Exhibition in the Hayward Gallery. April - July 1976
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).
Collection
Accession number
1757-1892

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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