Curtain Panel with Scenes of Merrymaking
500s
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Curtain Panel with Scenes of Merrymaking, 500s. Egypt, Byzantine period. Linen, undyed; wool: dyed; tapestry weave with supplementary weft wrapping; overall: 144.2 x 57.1 cm (56 3/4 x 22 1/2 in.); mounted: 153.7 x 66 x 3.2 cm (60 1/2 x 26 x 1 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund and Gift of the Textile Art Alliance in memory of Robert P. Bergman 2000.5 The textile industry drove the Egyptian economy, dominated by the flax plant from which linen is derived.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Textile
- Formatted Medium
- Linen, undyed; wool: dyed; tapestry weave with supplementary weft wrapping
- Dimensions
- Overall: 144.2 x 57.1 cm (56 3/4 x 22 1/2 in.); Mounted: 153.7 x 66 x 3.2 cm (60 1/2 x 26 x 1 1/4 in.)
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 2000.5
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund and Gift of the Textile Art Alliance in memory of Robert P. Bergman
- Exhibitions
- Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation, Coptic Textile Rotation, Coptic Textile Rotation, Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106, Gallery 210 textile rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11, 2000-October 21, 2001).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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