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Textile Fragment of the Kanbun era
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Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Harvard College Library Gift of Dr. Ernest G. Stillman Class of 1907
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Cope and textile fragment of brocaded silk damask, possibly made in Italy or France, 1670-1699. Cope and textile fragment of brocaded silk damask. Woven with arabesques in stripes. The design is carried out in yellow damask, white silk twill and brocaded
Cope and textile fragment of brocaded silk damask, possibly made in Italy or France, 1670-1699. Cope and textile fragment of brocaded silk damask. Woven with arabesques in stripes. The design is carried out in yellow damask, white silk twill and brocaded
Cope and textile fragment of brocaded silk damask, possibly made in Italy or France, 1670-1699. Cope and textile fragment of brocaded silk damask. Woven with arabesques in stripes....
Epigraphic Textile
Epigraphic Textile
On the central section of this textile, an inscription in monumental thuluth script is repeated twelve times. The text comes from the Sura al-Fath (Victory, 48:3): “And that Allah...
Epigraphic Textile
Epigraphic Textile
The design of this textile panel consists entirely of religious texts and invocations, disposed in wide horizontal bands in thuluth script, alternating with narrow bands in kufic s...
EARLY MEDIEVAL JEWELLERY
EARLY MEDIEVAL JEWELLERY
Description: A small fragment of sheet gold, roughly rectangular in surviving shape and now distorted and folded, all edges are incomplete due to old breaks apart from one, which h...
Fragments from a Tunic Front
Fragments from a Tunic Front
Several tapestry-woven fragments have been mounted on a linen backing in the shape of a tunic front. The largest, uppermost fragment consists of an arcade with four dark purple fig...
Beauty of the Kanbun Era
Beauty of the Kanbun Era
Hanging scroll; ink color and gold on paper, Edo period (1615–1868), Japan...
Textile Fragment: Duck and Flowers
Textile Fragment: Duck and Flowers
Against a red background, a duck woven from undyed wool with red details walks along a slightly sloping, stylized ground line. The duck is framed by a thin square line of undyed wo...
Fragment with Jeweled Cross Flanked by Birds
Fragment with Jeweled Cross Flanked by Birds
This fragmented textile has a jeweled cross at its center, flanked by two multicolored birds with head crests (peahens?). A gold border with jewels and pearls runs near the top of ...