Textile Panel
1775-1800 (made)
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Plain weave cotton embroidered with silk in surface darning on the diagonal and running stitch with couched metal thread.
The coloured silk embroidery has been worked on a very fine cotton ground which has then been backed with a coarser cotton through which the couching has been done. This suggests that the silk embroidery was done and then the metal thread was added. The motifs are outlined with black blocks.
Blue ground with a rigid pattern of large, multi-pointed 'gold' stars with a central light blue cross, alternating with smaller silver stars with a light green diamond. Between these two motifs are diagonal pointed cartouches with light green ground, a central lozenge and a tiny S- or Z-motif.
There are no end borders. The border along the sides has a red ground with a line of 'gold' stars and silver pointed cartouches with green 'leaves'.
Embroidery threads: 2S silk; blue, light blue, faded red, green, light green, dark green, black, pink.
Metal thread: silver strip close S-wound on a white silk core couched with white silk and silver strip close S-wound on an orange silk core couched with orange silk.
The coloured silk embroidery has been worked on a very fine cotton ground which has then been backed with a coarser cotton through which the couching has been done. This suggests that the silk embroidery was done and then the metal thread was added. The motifs are outlined with black blocks.
Blue ground with a rigid pattern of large, multi-pointed 'gold' stars with a central light blue cross, alternating with smaller silver stars with a light green diamond. Between these two motifs are diagonal pointed cartouches with light green ground, a central lozenge and a tiny S- or Z-motif.
There are no end borders. The border along the sides has a red ground with a line of 'gold' stars and silver pointed cartouches with green 'leaves'.
Embroidery threads: 2S silk; blue, light blue, faded red, green, light green, dark green, black, pink.
Metal thread: silver strip close S-wound on a white silk core couched with white silk and silver strip close S-wound on an orange silk core couched with orange silk.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | cotton yarn, silk thread, metal thread, weaving, embroidering, sewing. |
| Brief description | Middle East, Textile; Panel, silk-embroidered cotton with silver thread, packed design of star-medallions, smaller stars and cartouches on blue ground, Azerbaijan or NW Iran, 1775-1800 |
| Physical description | Plain weave cotton embroidered with silk in surface darning on the diagonal and running stitch with couched metal thread. The coloured silk embroidery has been worked on a very fine cotton ground which has then been backed with a coarser cotton through which the couching has been done. This suggests that the silk embroidery was done and then the metal thread was added. The motifs are outlined with black blocks. Blue ground with a rigid pattern of large, multi-pointed 'gold' stars with a central light blue cross, alternating with smaller silver stars with a light green diamond. Between these two motifs are diagonal pointed cartouches with light green ground, a central lozenge and a tiny S- or Z-motif. There are no end borders. The border along the sides has a red ground with a line of 'gold' stars and silver pointed cartouches with green 'leaves'. Embroidery threads: 2S silk; blue, light blue, faded red, green, light green, dark green, black, pink. Metal thread: silver strip close S-wound on a white silk core couched with white silk and silver strip close S-wound on an orange silk core couched with orange silk. |
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| Object history | Purchased from Durlachers Bros, 142 New Bond Street, London, from the sale of the estate of Alfred Morrison on 1 December 1898. Described in the sale catalogue as: "A Coverlit, with geometrical design in rose, blue, buff and silver - from Turkistan, 18th Century". |
| Bibliographic reference | Christie, Manson and Woods, The Collection of a Portion of the Celebrated Collection of Indian, Persian, Turkish and Other Oriental Embroideries, Brocades, Prayer-Carpets and Rugs, and other Oriental Fabrics, of the late Alfred Morrison, Esq. (1 December 1898): lot 79. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 1024-1898 |
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| Record created | April 9, 2008 |
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