Woven Silk
15th century (made)
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Textile. Red silk; woven with a repeating design consisting of lobed lozenge-shaped compartments formed by leaves and enclosing floral devices geometrically arranged in green and yellow.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | woven silk |
| Brief description | 1400s, Hispano-Moresque |
| Physical description | Textile. Red silk; woven with a repeating design consisting of lobed lozenge-shaped compartments formed by leaves and enclosing floral devices geometrically arranged in green and yellow. |
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| Object history | Purchased for £10.2s from Messieurs Sasson & Co. Neg. no. 33594 Neg. no. 33584 |
| Historical context | Samples of coloured threads from this object have been taken and are being analysed as part of a collaboration between the V&A and the Spanish Research project "Caracterización de als producciones textiles de la Antigüedad Tardía y Edad Media temprana: tejidos coptos, sasánidas, bizantinos e hispanomusulmanes en las colecciones públicas españolas" ("Characterization of Late Antique and Early Medieval textile production: Coptic, Sasanian, Byzantine and Spanish Muslim textiles in Spanish national collections") (HAR2008-04161) directed by Dr Laura Rodríguez Peinado, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Dpt. de Historia del Arte I (Medieval). |
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| Accession number | 438-1892 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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