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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1975.41.31
People
Hagop Kevorkian Foundation
Title
Hanging Decorated with Crosses and Floral Motifs
Classification
Textile Arts
Work Type
textile
Date
5th-7th century
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Africa, Bawit (Egypt)
Period
Byzantine period, Early
Culture
Egyptian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/288791

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Cotton, indigo and red pigment, plain weave, Z spun
Technique
Resist dyed
Dimensions
H. 270 x W. 131 cm (106 5/16 x 51 9/16 in.)
framed: 292.7 × 150.5 × 6.7 cm (115 1/4 × 59 1/4 × 2 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Hagop Kevorkian, New York (by 1941-1962), by descent; to The Hagop Kevorkian Foundation, New York (1962-1975), gift; to the Fogg Museum.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of The Hagop Kevorkian Foundation in memory of Hagop Kevorkian
Accession Year
1975
Object Number
1975.41.31
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • "Pagan and Christian Egypt: Egyptian Art from the First to the Tenth Century A.D." (1941), Brooklyn Museum, p. 83, no. 263
  • Gudrun Buehl, Sumru Belger Krody, and Elizabeth Dospěl Williams, Woven Interiors: Furnishing Early Medieval Egypt, exh. cat., The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum (Washington, D.C., 2019), pp. 74-75, cat. 28
  • Patricia Blessing, Elizabeth Dospěl Williams, and Eiren L. Shea, Medieval Textiles across Eurasia, c. 300-1400, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 12, 15, fig. 14

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 3740 Egyptian, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/01/2016 - 12/15/2016
  • Woven Interiors: Early Medieval Textiles of the Eastern Mediterranean, The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum, Washington, 08/31/2019 - 01/05/2020

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