Cover
1800-1899 (made)
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Cover, silk satin embroidered with couched metal thread and coloured silk in satin stitch, faced with patterned cotton and backed with undecorated cotton twill.
The central panel 54.4 x 54 cm] has a light green silk satin ground with a radiating design from a small irregular central rosette with silver metal thread couched with red silk forming a spiral in the centre. There are four pink/beige leaves and four smaller light green and yellow leaves. From the rosette emerge eight straight stem supporting alternate flowering forms, one larger than the other. [1] pointing to each corner, a stem carrying two tarnished 'gold' and two half leaves in four shades of pink/beige leading into a large exotic tulip-like flower head with alternate petals in beige/brown, 'silver' and 'gold' thread with some details in blue and white; [2] in between, a smaller version of [1] but in a more closed form with a stem cluster rather than leaf design; the same palette of silk embroidery. In places a couched outline of 2-ply black silk twisted with silver thread remains. Between this panel and the border and again between the border and the facing there is a narrow border of 2 lines of black silk thread held in place by silver metal thread. Traces of under-drawing.
Border: pieced red silk satin with a light green selvedge and embroidered over the seams. There is an undulating stem with serrated leaves in silver metal thread and 'gold' 5-petalled rosettes with silver coiled centres and blue details and buds in three shades of beige and cream with small blue leaf details. Traces of under-drawing.
Metal thread: silver strip close S-wound on white silk generally couched with white silk in a twill pattern; silver metal thread close S-wound on yellow Z-twisted silk couched with red silk in twill pattern, creating an effect of gold.
Silk threads: 2S twist silk: light blue, dark blue, white, cream, light pink, beige, dark beige, brown, grey.
Facing: bias-cut, dark blue cotton satin woven with a twill pattern of botehs in yellow, white, pink and light green.
Backing: unpatterned red cotton twill.
The central panel 54.4 x 54 cm] has a light green silk satin ground with a radiating design from a small irregular central rosette with silver metal thread couched with red silk forming a spiral in the centre. There are four pink/beige leaves and four smaller light green and yellow leaves. From the rosette emerge eight straight stem supporting alternate flowering forms, one larger than the other. [1] pointing to each corner, a stem carrying two tarnished 'gold' and two half leaves in four shades of pink/beige leading into a large exotic tulip-like flower head with alternate petals in beige/brown, 'silver' and 'gold' thread with some details in blue and white; [2] in between, a smaller version of [1] but in a more closed form with a stem cluster rather than leaf design; the same palette of silk embroidery. In places a couched outline of 2-ply black silk twisted with silver thread remains. Between this panel and the border and again between the border and the facing there is a narrow border of 2 lines of black silk thread held in place by silver metal thread. Traces of under-drawing.
Border: pieced red silk satin with a light green selvedge and embroidered over the seams. There is an undulating stem with serrated leaves in silver metal thread and 'gold' 5-petalled rosettes with silver coiled centres and blue details and buds in three shades of beige and cream with small blue leaf details. Traces of under-drawing.
Metal thread: silver strip close S-wound on white silk generally couched with white silk in a twill pattern; silver metal thread close S-wound on yellow Z-twisted silk couched with red silk in twill pattern, creating an effect of gold.
Silk threads: 2S twist silk: light blue, dark blue, white, cream, light pink, beige, dark beige, brown, grey.
Facing: bias-cut, dark blue cotton satin woven with a twill pattern of botehs in yellow, white, pink and light green.
Backing: unpatterned red cotton twill.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | silk thread, metal thread, cotton yarn, weaving, embroidering, sewing |
| Brief description | A silk and metal threads embroidered cover, possibly Iran, 19th century |
| Physical description | Cover, silk satin embroidered with couched metal thread and coloured silk in satin stitch, faced with patterned cotton and backed with undecorated cotton twill. The central panel 54.4 x 54 cm] has a light green silk satin ground with a radiating design from a small irregular central rosette with silver metal thread couched with red silk forming a spiral in the centre. There are four pink/beige leaves and four smaller light green and yellow leaves. From the rosette emerge eight straight stem supporting alternate flowering forms, one larger than the other. [1] pointing to each corner, a stem carrying two tarnished 'gold' and two half leaves in four shades of pink/beige leading into a large exotic tulip-like flower head with alternate petals in beige/brown, 'silver' and 'gold' thread with some details in blue and white; [2] in between, a smaller version of [1] but in a more closed form with a stem cluster rather than leaf design; the same palette of silk embroidery. In places a couched outline of 2-ply black silk twisted with silver thread remains. Between this panel and the border and again between the border and the facing there is a narrow border of 2 lines of black silk thread held in place by silver metal thread. Traces of under-drawing. Border: pieced red silk satin with a light green selvedge and embroidered over the seams. There is an undulating stem with serrated leaves in silver metal thread and 'gold' 5-petalled rosettes with silver coiled centres and blue details and buds in three shades of beige and cream with small blue leaf details. Traces of under-drawing. Metal thread: silver strip close S-wound on white silk generally couched with white silk in a twill pattern; silver metal thread close S-wound on yellow Z-twisted silk couched with red silk in twill pattern, creating an effect of gold. Silk threads: 2S twist silk: light blue, dark blue, white, cream, light pink, beige, dark beige, brown, grey. Facing: bias-cut, dark blue cotton satin woven with a twill pattern of botehs in yellow, white, pink and light green. Backing: unpatterned red cotton twill. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | (Inscription: paper label sewn on the backing with ink number '59'.) |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.181-1911 |
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| Record created | April 22, 2008 |
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