Cleveland Museum of Art
Roundel with curvilinear palmette tree, from a tunic
- Date
- 600–850
- Medium
- Silk; complementary weft-faced twill weave with inner warps (samite)
- Culture
- Egypt or Syria(?)
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 129204
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Originally, roundels like this were cut and sewn onto the front and back of a tunic, probably linen, in Egypt. They belong to a sizeable group of comparable silk decorations found in Akhmim, Egypt. In each roundel, a stylized palmette tree is enclosed within a simplified lotus border that evolved from an ancient Egyptian lotus motif. This elaborate pattern was woven on a large, early loom known as a drawloom that automatically repeated designs across the width of the fabric.
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- said to have been found in Akhmim, Egypt | ?–1952: (Mme. Paul Marguerite] Mallon [d. 1977], Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1952–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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