Cleveland Museum of Art
Palmettes and Birds from a Tunic or Curtain
- Date
- 500s–600s
- Medium
- Silk; complementary weft-faced twill weave with inner warps (samite)
- Culture
- Egypt or Syria, Byzantine or Islamic period
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 128944
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The symmetrical pattern displays back-to-back green parrots with branches in their beaks and two speckled birds perched on the leaves of a long-stemmed palmette. These elaborate patterns were woven on large, early looms known as drawlooms that automatically repeated designs across the width of the fabric, often in mirror-image symmetry.
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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- ?–1951: (Dikran G. Kelekian [1867–1951], Paris, France, and New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1951–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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