1931.35.10: Fragment with Fish, Animals, and Flowers
Textile Arts
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1931.35.10
- Title
- Fragment with Fish, Animals, and Flowers
- Classification
- Textile Arts
- Work Type
- textile
- Date
- 5th century
- Places
- Creation Place: Africa, Egypt
- Period
- Byzantine period
- Culture
- Byzantine
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/215279
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Wool, tapestry woven
- Technique
- Woven, tapestry weave
- Dimensions
- 9.5 x 14.5 cm (3 3/4 x 5 11/16 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Charles Bain Hoyt
- Accession Year
- 1931
- Object Number
- 1931.35.10
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Dark-colored fish, animals (rabbits?), and flowers fill the main portion of this monochrome tapestry woven band. The animals and fish are arranged in four rows and alternate with tendrils bearing flowers. A partial dark-colored border remains at the top edge. Along the bottom edge is a fragmentary border of a guilloche with details created in ‘flying shuttle’ technique using supplementary weft floats of undyed wool. The same border presumably also once decorated the other edge.
- Commentary
- The pattern of fish, animals, and plants arranged in rows is similar to the design that fills the clavi bands on Harvard's 1931.48.
Verification Level
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