Tapestry Panel (1000–1460s): Art, History and Details

Tapestry Panel (1000–1460s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The design of this panel depends on the repetition of a single motif: a small, geometricized head set inside a stepped V, which seems to represent the stylized bodies and wings of two birds. This motif, woven in different color combinations, alternates between up and down to form a sophisticated interlocking pattern that has no proper top and bottom. The panel probably once belonged to a garment.

Object facts

• Title: Tapestry Panel
• Date: 1000–1460s
• Culture: Peru, Central Coast, Chancay-Chimú style, 11th-15th century
• Type: Tapestry
• Technique: camelid fiber and cotton, tapestry weave
• Dimensions: Overall: 115 x 54.3 cm (45 1/4 x 21 3/8 in.); Mounted: 124.5 x 64.8 cm (49 x 25 1/2 in.)
• Collection: T - Pre-Columbian
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1992.103

Collection credit

Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Mr. and Mrs. Cedric Marks

Further reading listed by the museum

• Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1992.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 2 (February 1993): 38–79.

View the collection record

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