Woven Silk Fragment
1800-1860 (made)
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Dress fabric of warp-faced plain weave silk brocaded with silk and metal thread with impressed lines.
Blue ground patterned with offset rows of parrots perched on flowering bushes, with one large blossom, in predominantly green, orange and white silk and metal thread [silver strip open S-wound on a yellow silk core]. The birds face the opposite direction in alternate rows. The space between the motifs is marked by an impressed trellis of lozenges created by four parallel lines.
Blue ground patterned with offset rows of parrots perched on flowering bushes, with one large blossom, in predominantly green, orange and white silk and metal thread [silver strip open S-wound on a yellow silk core]. The birds face the opposite direction in alternate rows. The space between the motifs is marked by an impressed trellis of lozenges created by four parallel lines.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Brocaded silk with silk and metal threads |
| Brief description | Dress fabric of brocaded silk with silk and metal threads, Iran, 1800-1860 |
| Physical description | Dress fabric of warp-faced plain weave silk brocaded with silk and metal thread with impressed lines. Blue ground patterned with offset rows of parrots perched on flowering bushes, with one large blossom, in predominantly green, orange and white silk and metal thread [silver strip open S-wound on a yellow silk core]. The birds face the opposite direction in alternate rows. The space between the motifs is marked by an impressed trellis of lozenges created by four parallel lines. |
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| Credit line | Given by T. S. W. Jarvis, Esq. |
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| Accession number | T.21:21-1955 |
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| Record created | May 5, 2009 |
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