Silk fragment
1100s
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Silk fragment, 1100s. Egypt or Iran, Ayyubid period, 1100s. Lampas: silk; overall: 36.8 x 23.5 cm (14 1/2 x 9 1/4 in.); mounted: 47 x 33.7 cm (18 1/2 x 13 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1937.23 Silk of double cloth weave with design of lengthwise bands of ornament between bands of inscription.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Textile
- Formatted Medium
- lampas: silk
- Dimensions
- Overall: 36.8 x 23.5 cm (14 1/2 x 9 1/4 in.); Mounted: 47 x 33.7 cm (18 1/2 x 13 1/4 in.)
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1937.23
- Credit Line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Exhibitions
- 2000 Years of Silk Weaving, The Tree of Life
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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