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Fragment

13th–14th century

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Fragment of printed linen with a repeating design of closely set roundels containing a pair of addorsed regardant birds perched in the branches of a central tree-of-life, enclosed by a broad plain band with crescent hatching. Simplified rosette in the interstices with four fleur-de-lys forms extending from it. Printed in violet-blue on an undyed linen ground.

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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