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Textile with Foliated Ibexes

 
Accession numberBZ.1937.25
Attribution and Date
Uncertain attribution, 19th or 20th c.
Measurements

H. 6.6 × W. 34.4 cm (2 5/8 × 13 9/16 in.)

Technique and Material

Silk, lampas

Acquisition history

Purchased from H. Burg, London (through William Tyler), 1937; Robert Woods and Mildred Barnes Bliss; Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1940

R. Ettinghausen, “Arabic Inscriptions on Medieval Textiles from the Near East in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection” (unpublished manuscript, Washington, DC, 1939), no. 16.

F. Morris, “Catalogue of Textile Fabrics, The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection” (unpublished catalogue, Washington, DC, 1940), 3:229.

D. Thompson, “Catalogue of Textiles in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection” (unpublished catalogue, Washington, DC, 1976), no. 178.

Accession numberBZ.1937.25
Attribution and Date
Uncertain attribution, 19th or 20th c.
Measurements

H. 6.6 × W. 34.4 cm (2 5/8 × 13 9/16 in.)

Technique and Material

Silk, lampas

Acquisition history

Purchased from H. Burg, London (through William Tyler), 1937; Robert Woods and Mildred Barnes Bliss; Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1940