1916.386: Embroidered Cloth from Azimur
Textile Arts
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1916.386
- Title
- Embroidered Cloth from Azimur
- Classification
- Textile Arts
- Work Type
- textile
- Date
- 17th-18th century
- Places
- Creation Place: Africa, Morocco
- Culture
- Moroccan
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/215082
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Long-armed cross and four-sided silk stitch on a cotton ground.
- Technique
- Embroidery
- Dimensions
- 14 x 29 cm (5 1/2 x 11 7/16 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Dr. Denman Ross
- Accession Year
- 1916
- Object Number
- 1916.386
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Cotton embroidered with silk, field of red running length of panel, leaf patterns formalized natural objects of linen, outlined with green thread, border of 2 1/2 above and below panel with repeated tree motifs.
Verification Level
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