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Woven Silk Fragment

1800-1880 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Description: Woven silk and metal thread.
Black silk satin ground woven with red silk and metal thread[ silver strip open S-wound on a yellow silk core] in a repeating pattern of rows of a left-facing boteh infilled with red flower heads and surrounded by large quadrupeds, birds, fish and vases of flowers.

For similar design see also: T.234-1910 and T.227-1921.

Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
silk thread, metal thread, weaving
Brief description
Woven silk fragment
Physical description
Description: Woven silk and metal thread.
Black silk satin ground woven with red silk and metal thread[ silver strip open S-wound on a yellow silk core] in a repeating pattern of rows of a left-facing boteh infilled with red flower heads and surrounded by large quadrupeds, birds, fish and vases of flowers.

For similar design see also: T.234-1910 and T.227-1921.
Dimensions
  • Length: 20cm
  • Width: 8.5cm
Collection
Accession number
1077A-1900

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Record createdApril 28, 2009
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