1975.41.5: Fragment with Two Leaves in Medallions
Textile Arts
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1975.41.5
- Title
- Fragment with Two Leaves in Medallions
- Classification
- Textile Arts
- Work Type
- tapestry
- Date
- 5th-6th century
- Places
- Creation Place: Africa, Egypt
- Period
- Byzantine period, Early
- Culture
- Byzantine
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/289164
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Linen and wool, tapestry woven
- Technique
- Woven, tapestry weave
- Dimensions
- 10.5 × 19 cm (4 1/8 × 7 1/2 in.)
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
- 1975.41.5
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Scrolling orange vine forms two medallions, one with a green leaf with red details against buff background, the other with a yellow leaf with dark blue details against a dark blue background. In the interstices created by the orange vine scroll are purple tripartite leaves. Straight edge at left has hint of purple border.
Linen warps are doubled and tripled in this tapestry woven band. The colored wefts are wool. Supplementary buff colored wefts create the lower curves inside the green leaf and the uppermost edge of this leaf. The rest of the many curves in this piece are created using eccentric wefts.
Verification Level
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