Curtain Fragment with Galloping Horse
500s
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Curtain Fragment with Galloping Horse, 500s. Egypt, Antinoë, Byzantine period, 6th century. Plain weave (tabby) with inwoven slit-tapestry weave; wool ; overall: 45.4 x 31.4 cm (17 7/8 x 12 3/8 in.); mounted: 54 x 41.3 cm (21 1/4 x 16 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1948.27
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Textile
- Formatted Medium
- plain weave (tabby) with inwoven slit-tapestry weave; wool
- Dimensions
- Overall: 45.4 x 31.4 cm (17 7/8 x 12 3/8 in.); Mounted: 54 x 41.3 cm (21 1/4 x 16 1/4 in.)
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1948.27
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- 35th Anniversary Exhibition, Coptic Art, Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation, Coptic Textile Rotation, Coptic Textile Rotation, Essen, Villa Hügel, Koptische-Kunst, Christentum am Nil (Essen-Bredeney, 1963), no. 367, illus.<br>Zürich, Kusnthaus, Koptische Kunst, Christentum am Nil (Essen, 1963), no. 314, illus.<br>Paris, Petit Palais, L'Art Copte (Paris, 1964), no. 269, illus.<br>Vienna, Akademie der bildenden Kunste, Frühchristliche und koptische Kunst (Vienna, 1964), no. 598, fig. 116.<br>Gallery 210 textile rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 16, 2002-October 27, 2003).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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