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Textile fragment

Mesopotamian
10th–11th century
Object Place: attributed to Baghdad, Mesopotamia

Medium/Technique Silk and cotton plain weave embroidered with silk and metallic thread
Dimensions 10.5 x 10.5 cm (4 1/8 x 4 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Helen and Alice Colburn Fund
Accession Number31.443
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsTextiles

DescriptionCream-colored silk ground (mulham) embroidered with silk in split stitch and couched with gold-metallic thread (membrane wrapped on cream silk core); design of conventionalized lion (metal wound on silk), part of 31.444-445.