Textile Printed in Gold

Unknown

917–23 · Linen, cotton, rabbit fur; plain weave, printed · Islamic Art

The design of this textile fragment is a repeated pattern consisting of rows of facing palmettes and trefoil motifs, printed in gold on a tan ground. Another fragment of the same textile (now in the Abegg Stiftung Museum, Switzerland) bears an embroidered tiraz band inscribed with the name of the vizier Hamid b. al-ʿAbbas.

Artist

Unknown

Date

917–23

Medium

Linen, cotton, rabbit fur; plain weave, printed

Department

Islamic Art

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1932