Tunic or Shawl Ornament (600s): Art, History and Details
Tunic or Shawl Ornament at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 600s, dyed wool, undyed linen; plain weave, slit-tapestry weave. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Tunic or Shawl Ornament (600s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
This oval originally belonged to a matched set that would have decorated either a unisex tunic or shawl. The fragment features a distinctive semi-abstract style of figural representation.
Object facts
- Title: Tunic or Shawl Ornament
- Date: 600s
- Culture: Egypt, Byzantine period
- Type: Textile
- Technique: dyed wool, undyed linen; plain weave, slit-tapestry weave
- Dimensions: Overall: 24.5 x 22.9 cm (9 5/8 x 9 in.); Mounted: 32.1 x 29.5 x 2.5 cm (12 5/8 x 11 5/8 x 1 in.)
- Collection: T - Coptic
- Department: Textiles
- Accession number: 1982.274
Collection credit
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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