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Fragment
From the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Fragment of woven silk containing six pearl roundels, in sky blue and dark green on a red ground. The top two roundels enclose confronted elephants, the middle two addorsed senmurvs, and the bottom two confronted hippocampi. Four-lobed rosettes with elaborate floriated edges in interspaces.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineFragment. 11th–12th century. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Gift of John Pierpont Morgan. CC0.
