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Collections

Fragment of a Dress or Furnishing Fabric with 'Chintamani' Designmid-16th century

Not on view
Woven textile fragment with deep crimson ground and allover pattern of large gold circular medallions filled with confronted scrolling animals, surrounded by smaller satellite disks in gold with red accents
Textile fragment with deep crimson ground woven with repeating roundels containing interlaced scrollwork in gold and silver, separated by small trefoil and circular motifs with accents of blue, yellow, and red; frayed edges visible.
Title
Fragment of a Dress or Furnishing Fabric with 'Chintamani' Design
Place Made
Turkey, Bursa or Istanbul
Date Made
mid-16th century
Medium
Silk satin with silk and silver-metallic supplementary weft patterning bound in twill (lampas)
Dimensions
44 x 23 3/8 in. (111.76 x 59.3725 cm) Strainer: 46 1/8 × 26 1/4 × 3/4 in. (117.16 × 66.68 × 1.91 cm) Frame: 46 7/8 × 26 7/8 × 2 3/8 in. (119.06 × 68.26 × 6.03 cm)
Credit Line
The Edwin Binney, 3rd, Collection of Turkish Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Accession Number
M.85.237.1
Classification
Textiles
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography

  • Lo Terrenal y lo Divino: Arte Islámico siglos VII al XIX Colección del Museo de Arte del Condado de Los Ángeles. Santiago: Centro Cultural La Moneda, 2015.

  • Pal, Pratapaditya, Thomas W. Lentz, Sheila R. Canby, Edwin Binney, 3rd, Walter B. Denny, and Stephen Markel. "Arts from Islamic Cultures: Los Angeles County Museum of Art." Arts of Asia 17, no. 6 (November/December 1987): 73-130.