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Fragment
Unknown1250–1274
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Central horizontal band of two rows of Arabic inscription, opposed in direction, flanked by ground fabric of rosettes enclosing quatrefoils on one side, rose and stars enclosing quatrefoils on the other side. Incription in white on gold ground. Rosettes in blue and gold on a ground of white and gold. stars in rose, blue, white and gold. Several narrow horizontal stripes of red and white.
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Details
- Title: Fragment
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: 1250–1274
- Physical Dimensions: w184 x h263 cm
- Type: Fragment
- Rights: Gift of John Pierpont Morgan
- Medium: Medium: silk, metallic threads Technique: plain weave with complementary wefts
- Provenance: ex-collection: Francisco Miquel y Badía
- Exhibitions: New York, NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters. Spanish Medieval Art, December 15, 1954 through January 30, 1955.
- Dimensions: H x W: 26.3 x 18.4 cm (10 3/8 x 7 1/4 in.)
- Bibliography: Errera, Isabelle. No. 19A, p. 40. Cole, A.S. Ornament in European Silks, fig. 22, p. 46.Kendrick, A.F. Mohamedean Medieval Textiles, plate XiX, no. 987. E.G.H. No 293. Loewi: Almeria, 12th centuryCooper Union Chronicles, vol. I no. 10, Dec. 1943, p. 379; reprod. p. 376, fig. 12.
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