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granates shown in cross section, the other has tulips. The
lobed ovals contain three concentric units: the central one
encloses a single tulip flanked by a profusion of thin and long
overlapping leaves, rendered in gold and placed on a blue
ground embellished with dots; the second oval has a series of
serrated trefoils growing inward from the lobed frame, woven
in rosy beige on a gold ground; and the outer unit contains
sprays of blue hyacinths separated by large feathery leaves on
a gold ground.
Another fragment from the same bolt is in Lyons. 72 The
Victoria and Albert Museum owns a piece with an identical
pattern woven with blue, red, cream, and gold on a green
ground, thought to be the back of a chasuble. 7Î
A more sophisticated design is found on a kemha com-
posed of two superimposed scrolls that create a fine lattice-
work of ogival patterns (146), rendered in gold with touches
of bright blue and ruby red, originally outlined in black (now

146. Kcmha fragment with double ogival pattern, second half sixteenth
century (New York, The Metropolitan Museum oí Art, 52.20.18)