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Linen and silk embroidery
Egyptian (Ayyubid)
A.D. 1169–1250
Medium/Technique
Linen and silk
Dimensions
Height x width: 9 1/16 x 2 15/16 in. (23 x 7.5 cm)
Credit Line
Maria Antoinette Evans Fund
Accession Number30.684
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAfrica and Oceania, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionGround: cream linen cloth with alternate groups of brown silk warp and weft which have rotted away. Design: inscription in formal Naskh (.03 high); blue silk ground worked in chain stitch; and letters of couched gold (membrane wound on yellow silk; gold almost entirely gone) outlined with stem stitch in red. Narrow red border above and below has mostly perished. Inscription: undeciphered.
Provenance1930, sold by Madame Marguerite Sursock, Paris to the MFA. (Accession date: October 16, 1930)