Textile Fragment
early 12th century
Maker Unknown
Arts of the Islamic World
Later Fatimid tiraz textiles demonstrate a revival of Late Antique and Coptic motifs, including the hares and back-to-back birds inhabiting the central medallions of this textile fragment. Depictions of animals and birds, combined with lavish banded ornamentation of colorful, stylized motifs, overtook the importance of historical inscriptions in later Fatimid textiles of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Textile
- Formatted Medium
- Linen ground, silk tapestry-woven decorative band
- Medium
- linen, ground, silk, tapestry-woven, decorative, band
- Period
- Fatimid Period
- Dimensions
- 3 1/2 x 10 3/8in. (8.9 x 26.4cm) Frame: 1 15/16 x 9 1/16 x 16 1/16 in. (5 x 23 x 40.8 cm)
- Departments
- Arts of the Islamic World
- Accession Number
- 86.227.102
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc.
- Rights Statement
- Creative Commons-BY
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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