Fragment (1800s): Art, History and Details
Fragment at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1800s, Linen, silk, dye. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Fragment (1800s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
This woven linen textile is decorated with silk-thread embroidery in several colours. The initial composition layout consists of dark red and navy blue florals along three sides of of the textile, with a "pinwheel" in the fourth. A second layer of embroideries seems to have been added, filling all of the empty spaces with additional florals and small medallions in an orange and slate blue colour palette.
Object facts
- Title: Fragment
- Date: 1800s
- Culture: Africa, North Africa, Algeria, Algerian embroiderer
- Type: Embroidery
- Technique: Linen, silk, dye
- Dimensions: Overall: 91.4 x 70.5 cm (36 x 27 3/4 in.)
- Collection: T - Islamic
- Department: Textiles
- Accession number: 1940.356
Collection credit
Gift of Mrs. Chester C. Bolton
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