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Length of embroidered silk
Iranian (Zoroastrian)
19th or early 20th century
Object Place: India
Medium/Technique
Silk plain-weave (rib variation) embroidered with silk; cotton plain-weave lining
Dimensions
Overall: 57 x 143.6cm (22 7/16 x 56 9/16in.)
Credit Line
Gift of High School Scholarship Classes of Fine Arts
Accession Number59.984
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionRectangular piece of cloth, possibly a manuscript cover, with design of narrow strips of green, black, yellow, blue and pinkish purple silk taffeta stitched edge to edge, with variegated cord covering seams, each strip embroidered with polychrome silks, in small stitches, showing a row of wheels flanked by rows of leaves; lined with coarse printed plain-weave cotton, rusty pink in color. Indications of a binding tape along edges, no longer present.
ProvenanceGift from High School Scholarship Classes of Fine Arts to the MFA, December 10, 1959