Fragment
date: label: Date
content: 9th–12th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Early Islamic embroidery fragment. Silk on linen showing multicolored fish, pairs of birds and other animals embroidered with dark outline. Allover designs of scrolls and palmettes. Scattered geometric ornament in blue. Upper border of geometric scrolls outlined in dark brown. Backed with linen. Large areas of loss and fading.
place: label: possibly made in
content: Egypt
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Marian Hague
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1971-50-23
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
label: Type
content: Fragment
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk on linen Technique: embroidered on plain weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 49.7 × 42 cm (19 9/16 × 16 9/16 in.)