Textiles & Costume
Tunic with Ornamental Inscription
Textile
Details
- Author / creator
- Iran or Iraq
- Object type
- Textile
- Date or period
- 1329–1955
- Dimensions summary
- Overall: 127 × 149.8 cm
- Place of origin
- Iran or Iraq
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the Art Fund grant and Friends of the Ashcombe Museum, 1968
- Fibres
- Silk
- Structure
- Lampas
About this object
The sleeves, neck opening, and most of the front area nearly to waist are preserved; the back has large areas missing. The foliated inscription bands on the sleeves near the shoulder seams are in white (faded from blue) on a pink and brown ground.
Materials and technique
Silk: lampas weave
Signature and marks
Afdal al-ma 'ruf ma'unat al-malhuf (“The most virtuous good deed is helping him who is distressed.”)
