Textile Panel
1750-1790 (made)
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Plain weave cotton embroidered with silk in surface darning on the diagonal and backed with orange silk. The ground is white with vertical rows of red 8-pointed stars alternating with a smaller light blue diamond and the same red star alternating with a yellow diamond. Light blue diagonally placed pointed cartouches containing S- or Z-motifs link the red stars. Both cartouches and stars contain a whirligig of four leaves. There is a border with a light blue ground with a fine black line linking a diagonally placed rectangle and curved leaves. The outlines are worked in blocks in black running stitch.
Colours (Embroidery thread, 2S silk): white, black, dark red, yellow, light blue, blue, red.
Colours (Embroidery thread, 2S silk): white, black, dark red, yellow, light blue, blue, red.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Silk embroidery on cotton |
| Brief description | Middle East, Textile; Panel, silk-embroidered cotton, packed design of star-medallions and cartouches, border has Persian dedication inscription dated 1208H (1793) linked with the shrine of Imam Husayn in Kerbala (Iraq), Azerbaijan or NW Iran, possibly 1750-1790 |
| Physical description | Plain weave cotton embroidered with silk in surface darning on the diagonal and backed with orange silk. The ground is white with vertical rows of red 8-pointed stars alternating with a smaller light blue diamond and the same red star alternating with a yellow diamond. Light blue diagonally placed pointed cartouches containing S- or Z-motifs link the red stars. Both cartouches and stars contain a whirligig of four leaves. There is a border with a light blue ground with a fine black line linking a diagonally placed rectangle and curved leaves. The outlines are worked in blocks in black running stitch. Colours (Embroidery thread, 2S silk): white, black, dark red, yellow, light blue, blue, red. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | (Embroidered on the orange silk backing using white thread.)
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| Gallery label | PERSIAN; dated 1793.
Silk embroidery on cotton: double darning and double running stitch.
On the lining is embroidered an inscription which reads: "This Headkerchief has been dedicated to the Master of the Martyrs Imam Husein by the daughter of Hajji Zaki Yazdi to be used for all purposes in the days of mourning (Moharram) and to be returned to its owner. May the transgressor be cursed by God. Written in the month of Ramazan in the year 1208 A.H.".
T.184-1929(20th Century) |
| Object history | Purchased for £15 from Y. Ebrahimoff, 16-17 Devonshire Square, London EC12. |
| Bibliographic reference | Jennifer Wearden, 'Azerbaijan Embroideries: A Synthesis of Contrasts', Hali 59 (October 1991) pp.102-111: Fig.18. |
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| Accession number | T.184-1929 |
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| Record created | July 16, 2008 |
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