Textile
date: label: Date
content: 8th - 10th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Tapestry-woven circular medallion in ivory and red wool on the warps of a weft-faced plain weave ivory wool fabric. A small roundel with a man mounted on a horse is surrounded by four figures, one on each of the four axes, in lobed frames which break into the outer border. The spaces between the four figures are filled with small figures and red circles. The outer border is made up of small red circles alternating with small blossoms.
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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 Clara Waldeck
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1969-170-27
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Textile
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: linen, wool Technique: plain weave with discontinuous wefts (tapestry) with slits, dovetails, eccentric wefts, and wrapping. On warps of weft-faced plain weave fabric.
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 31.8 × 30.5 cm (12 1/2 in. × 12 in.)