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The former contain alternately a row of palmettes or an inscription in Arabic characters signifying \"The Sultan, the Wise\". This fragment originally came from the treasury of St. Mary's Church in Gdansk, Poland. Several similar fragments with Arabic inscriptions have been found in ecclesiastical contexts in Europe: being used in reliquaries but also making up dalmatics and copes. It is believed that the textiles were produced in the East, somewhere in the vast Mongol Empire of the time, particularly for export to the West.","physicalDescription":"Lampas in coloured silks and gold thread. The pattern is in horizontal bands separated by narrow stripes. The former contain alternately a row of palmettes or an Arabic inscription, reading 'The wise, the Sultan'. In the stripes are rows of crescents enclosing discs. The pattern is throughout in gold thread, and the ground of the bands is dark or light red, blue or green, that of the stripes is pale blue. The gold thread consists of strips of gilt leather wound round a core of flax or hemp.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"silk (textile)","id":"AAT243428"}],"techniques":[{"text":"patterned weave","id":"x37271"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Pattern woven silk","categories":[{"text":"Textiles","id":"THES48885"},{"text":"Ecclesiastical textiles","id":"THES48962"},{"text":"Islam","id":"THES48932"}],"styles":[{"text":"Mongol","id":"AAT21608"},{"text":"Ilkhanid","id":"x42889"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"T&F","id":"THES48601"},"images":["2013GV0719","2012FG9977","2011EX1066","2017KE1396","2018KT5968","2022NF6618"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"A","id":"THES304278"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Woven silk and gold","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"No","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Central Asia","id":"x35011"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"possibly"},{"place":{"text":"Iran","id":"x30220"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"possibly"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1250-1350","earliest":"1250-01-01","latest":"1350-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Purchased from Herr Krauth, Mannheim","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Length","value":"12","unit":"in","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"4","unit":"in","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Taken from Kendrick's publication","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"The wise, the Sultan","transliteration":"al-a`lam, al-sultan","type":"","note":""}],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"Fragments of the same silk are now in Berlin (Kunstgewerbemuseum 1875.259), and were previously in the 14th-century Marienkirche (Church of St Mary) in Gdansk.","briefDescription":"Middle East, Textile, Fragment. 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