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Textile Fragmentslate 18th-early 19th century

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Two ragged textile fragments with an allover woven floral pattern of red rounded flower clusters, green foliage, and cream vines on a tan metallic ground
Two textile fragments with woven floral pattern; the larger piece features red and pink flower clusters with green foliage on a gold ground arranged in a diagonal lattice; frayed edges visible on both fragments.

Unknown, Textile Fragments, late 18th-early 19th century, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Madina Collection of Islamic Art, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Textile Fragments
Place Made
Iran
Date Made
late 18th-early 19th century
Medium
Silk weft-faced compound plain weave (tacqueté) with metallic-thread supplementary-weft patterning
Dimensions
a) 10 13/16 x 3 3/4 in. (27.46 x 9.52 cm); b) 8 1/16 x 1 9/16 in. (20.47 x 3.96 cm)
Credit Line
The Madina Collection of Islamic Art, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost
Accession Number
M.2002.1.722a-b
Classification
Textiles
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography
  • Komaroff, Linda. Beauty and Identity: Islamic Art from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2016.

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