Textile Fragment
12th century
Maker Unknown
Arts of the Islamic World
A colorful parade of interlocking bands, scrolling motifs, and running hares in brilliant red, golden yellow, white, black, and luminous blue creates the registers of this tapestry-woven fragment. In textiles such as this one from the late Fatimid or early Ayyubid period, there is an increased interest in ornament and the inscriptions serve mainly as decorative frameworks.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Textile
- Formatted Medium
- Silk and linen, tapestry-woven
- Medium
- silk, linen, tapestry-woven
- Locations
- Place made: Africa
- Dynasty
- Fatimid or Ayyubid
- Period
- Fatimid or Ayyubid
- Dimensions
- 18 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. (47 x 39.4 cm) Frame: 1 1/2 x 21 5/8 x 19 3/16 in. (3.8 x 55 x 48.8 cm)
- Departments
- Arts of the Islamic World
- Accession Number
- 39.90
- Credit Line
- Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
- Exhibitions
- Curator's Choice: Islam in Africa
- Rights Statement
- Creative Commons-BY
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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