Design
1350-1399 (made)
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Design (recto) for a woven silk with a strong diagonal pattern repeat of vine leaves, alternating with a griffin-like creatures, part eagle part dragon, and a a hound-like creature. Design (verso) for a woven silk or for embroidery with on the left three hares in a circle above which is a chalice within a hexagon and on the right are three ducks in water above which is the dove of the Holy Spirit.
Object details
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Materials and techniques | pen and bistre on vellum |
Brief description | Design for a woven silk, Italian, Venetian or Lucchese, second half of the fourteenth century |
Physical description | Design (recto) for a woven silk with a strong diagonal pattern repeat of vine leaves, alternating with a griffin-like creatures, part eagle part dragon, and a a hound-like creature. Design (verso) for a woven silk or for embroidery with on the left three hares in a circle above which is a chalice within a hexagon and on the right are three ducks in water above which is the dove of the Holy Spirit. |
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Production type | Design |
Marks and inscriptions | Blind stamp of crown within an oval with an oval band of lettering around the crown (illegible inscription). (Science and Art Department blind stamp for the South Kensington Museum in the top left corner. The lettering usually says ' SCIENCE & ART DEPARTMENT' around the outer band and then 'ART LIBRARY' beneath the crown.) |
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Accession number | 2328 |
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Record created | February 18, 2008 |
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