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Linen and silk embroidery
Egyptian (Ayyubid) or Spanish
12th–13th century
Findspot: Egypt or Spain
Medium/Technique
Linen and silk
Dimensions
Height x width: 8 3/8 x 2 3/4 in. (21.2 x 7 cm)
Credit Line
Maria Antoinette Evans Fund
Accession Number30.682
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Africa and Oceania, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionGround: linen. Design: woman's figure with bird perched on wrist. The face has entirely disappeared; outlines drawn on linen indicate arm, hand and neck. Headdress, bird, and woman's skirt worked with green, red, yellow and dark blue silk in split and outline stitch, and couched gold thread (metal wound on yellow silk). Very ragged, many holes.
Provenance1930, sold by Madame Marguerite Sursock, Paris to the MFA. (Accession date: October 16, 1930)