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Embroidery
Mesopotamian, found in Egypt
10th-11th century
Findspot: Egypt
Medium/Technique
Silk and cotton plain weave embroidered with silk and metallic thread
Dimensions
11 x 9 cm (4 5/16 x 3 9/16 in.); Legacy dimension: (Height of lion .06) .09 x .11
Credit Line
Helen and Alice Colburn Fund
Accession Number31.445
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CollectionsFashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionGround: cream colored mulham. Design: conventionalized lion, worked with couched gold threads (metal wound on cream silk), and light green, cream, light blue, and brown silk, in split stitch. Two pieces put together, very brittle, ground cracking. Part of 31.443-444. See note.