Fragments
date: label: Date
content: 12th–13th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Three fragments of large-scale design of tangent roundels containing symmetrical design of addorsed lions twisting heads around to bite backs of confronted bird-women standing on lions' backs. Twining snakes at back of each bird-woman's neck. Wide borders showing repeats of a man's figure between two griffons (apotheosis of Alexander?), and pearled guard bands. Smaller roundel overlaid at four tangent points of large roundels, with central rosette and inscription border. Interspaces completely filled with large four-pointed rosettes composed of four ornamental tree forms, each with roundel enclosing rabbit-like creature on either side of trunk, growing out of eight-pointed star. Blue-green, dark rose, golden tan, metal brocading now tarnished to dull brown, on cream ground
place: label: made in
content: Spain
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase from the Mary Hearn Greims Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1940-8-1-a/c
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Fragments
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk Technique: lampas with supplementary discontinuous metal-wrapped pattern wefts
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (a): 15.6 × 8.3 cm (6 1/8 × 3 1/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (b): 15.9 × 14 cm (6 1/4 × 5 1/2 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (c): 10.2 × 15.6 cm (4 in. × 6 1/8 in.)