Silk Sleeve Decoration with Hunters
700s
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Silk Sleeve Decoration with Hunters, 700s. Egypt or Syria, Umayyad period (661–750) or Abbasid period (750–1258). Silk: complementary weft-faced twill with inner warps (samit); overall: 28.9 x 20.3 cm (11 3/8 x 8 in.); mounted: 37.8 x 29.2 cm (14 7/8 x 11 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1947.193 At the bottom, men with spears hunt ostrich.
- 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: 28.9 x 20.3 cm (11 3/8 x 8 in.); Mounted: 37.8 x 29.2 cm (14 7/8 x 11 1/2 in.)
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1947.193
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries, Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation, Coptic Textile Rotation, Art of the Islamic World (Islamic art rotation)
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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