Fragment
date: label: Date
content: 8th–9th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Checkerboard of medium-sized green and yellow X-shaped geometric figures and dark blue eight-pointed stars with deep ivory upright ovals centered in each star enclosing in alternate rows yellow palmettes and yellow cocks in profile. Stars bear small deep ivory heart-shaped ornament in each point. X-shaped geometric figures, outlined in yellow with pointed ends, contain herringbone hatching of green and yellow bands of varying widths in each arm and in the center of the figure a yellow fleuron outlined in green and dark blue, from which radiates through each arm a yellow axial stripe terminating short of end of arm in yellow and green heart-shaped figure outlined in dark blue.
place: label: made in
content: Turkey (Byzantium)
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John Pierpont Morgan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1902-1-212
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Fragment
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk Technique: 2/1 twill with complementary wefts and inner warps (samite)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 25 × 18.5 cm (9 13/16 × 7 5/16 in.)