Fragment of Embroidered Cloth
c. 300–100 B.C.
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Fragment of Embroidered Cloth, c. 300–100 B.C.. Peru, South Coast, Paracas, Late Period, c. 300-100 BC. Embroidery on plain wool ground; average: 100.3 x 139.1 cm (39 1/2 x 54 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection 1940.528 Extremely dry conditions on Peru's desert coast allow for the extraordinary preservation of textiles.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Textile
- Formatted Medium
- embroidery on plain wool ground
- Medium
- embroidery, plain, wool, ground
- Dimensions
- Average: 100.3 x 139.1 cm (39 1/2 x 54 3/4 in.)
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1940.528
- Credit Line
- The Norweb Collection
- Exhibitions
- Art of the Americas, Treasures of Peruvian Gold. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 23-April 3,1966).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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