Embroidered Linen
9th Century (made)
| Place of origin |
silk, 800-899, Egyptian; Loom embroidery, octagons, geometric, blue red
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Brief description | silk, 800-899, Egyptian; Loom embroidery, octagons, geometric, blue red |
| Gallery label |
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| Object history | Object numbers T.118-1934 to T.121-1934 purchased together for £50 from Maurice Nahman. Further fragments from this textile are today in the National Museum of Scotland (A.1934.482) and the Danish Museum of Art and Design (A19/1934). These two fragments were offered to the V&A alongside the pieces it chose, but these two museums were suggested as alternative homes (see Nominal File for F.R. Bryan, paper MA/1/3180/9). |
| Bibliographic reference | On Maurice Nahman see I.R. Abdulfattah, "A forgotten man: Maurice Nahman, An Antiquarian-Tastemaker", pp. 105-123 in: J. Kamrin, M. Bárta, S. Ikram, M. Lehner and M. Megahed (eds), Guardian of Ancient Egypt: Studies in Honour of Zahi Hawass (Prague, 2020). This textile and the group it came from is discussed on pp. 114-115. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.118-1934 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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