Koran cover
- Museum number:
- 9-15002
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090015002
- Alternate number:
- 977 (previous number (Design Dept.))
- Accession number:
- Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.04
- Description:
- Koran cover. Cotton, silk, metal-wrapped yarns. Plain weave, embroidered. Natural ground, black, green, white, and yellow designs. Leaf, flower, Arabic calligraphy motives. 43 inches by 18½ inches.
- Donor:
- Design Department (UC Berkeley) and Henrietta F. Brewer
- Collection place:
- Turkey
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Turkey
- Collector:
- Henrietta F. Brewer
- Collection date:
- 1925
- Materials:
- Silk
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Embroidery (visual works) and Textiles (visual works)
- Function:
- 5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
- Production date:
- 18th century, approximate
- Accession date:
- 1974
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Dimensions:
- length 43 inches and width 19 inches
- Loans:
- S1982-1983 #21: Santa Barbara Museum of Art (November 24, 1982–April 14, 1983)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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