Roundel from a Tunic with Palmette Tree
700s–800s
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Roundel from a Tunic with Palmette Tree, 700s–800s. Egypt or Syria, 8th-9th century. Silk; complementary weft-faced twill weave with inner warps (samite); overall: 18.1 x 18.4 cm (7 1/8 x 7 1/4 in.); mounted: 27.9 x 26.7 cm (11 x 10 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1982.296 Originally designed in Byzantine Egypt or possibly Syria, patterns like this were woven throughout a period of two to four centuries.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Textile
- Formatted Medium
- Silk; complementary weft-faced twill weave with inner warps (samite)
- Medium
- silk, complementary, weft-faced, twill, weave, inner, warps, samite
- Dimensions
- Overall: 18.1 x 18.4 cm (7 1/8 x 7 1/4 in.); Mounted: 27.9 x 26.7 cm (11 x 10 1/2 in.)
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1982.296
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries, Coptic Textile Rotation, Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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