Silk Fragments with Palmette Blossoms
700s
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Silk Fragments with Palmette Blossoms, 700s. Egypt or Syria, Umayyad period (661–750) or Abbasid period (750–1258). Silk: complementary weft-faced twill with inner warps (samit); overall: 22.5 x 29.5 cm (8 7/8 x 11 5/8 in.); mounted: 27.9 x 34.9 cm (11 x 13 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Textile Arts Club 1951.91
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Textile
- Formatted Medium
- Silk: complementary weft-faced twill with inner warps (samit)
- Medium
- silk, complementary, weft-faced, twill, inner, warps, samit
- Dimensions
- Overall: 22.5 x 29.5 cm (8 7/8 x 11 5/8 in.); Mounted: 27.9 x 34.9 cm (11 x 13 3/4 in.)
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1951.91
- Credit Line
- Gift of The Textile Arts Club
- Exhibitions
- Material Matters: Fifty Years of Gifts from the Textile Arts Club, Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries, Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation, Gallery 210 textile rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 23, 2001-October 27, 2002).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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