Fragment of a Reliquary Bag
1250–1299
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Fragment of a Reliquary Bag, 1250–1299. France, last half 13th century. Tapestry weave fragment with tablet woven band along top edge; silk and metal thread; overall: 12.1 x 18.4 cm (4 3/4 x 7 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1939.37
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Textile
- Formatted Medium
- tapestry weave fragment with tablet woven band along top edge; silk and metal thread
- Dimensions
- Overall: 12.1 x 18.4 cm (4 3/4 x 7 1/4 in.)
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1939.37
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- 2000 Years of Silk Weaving, Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages, <em>Masterpieces of the Weavers' Art</em>, Hackley Art Gallery, Muskegon, MI (October 7-November 3, 1957).<br>2000 Years of Tapestry Weaving. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT (December 7, 1951-January 27, 1952); Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (February 27-March 25, 1952).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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