Cleveland Museum of Art
Celestial banquet hanging, from the tomb of Bishop Gurb
- Date
- 1200–1284
- Medium
- Silk and gold thread: plain weave with inwoven tapestry weave
- Culture
- Spain, probably Almeria
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
This rare silk fragment is from a luxurious hanging of brightly colored silk and shiny gold thread that displayed rows of figural roundels on a plain ground. The two turbaned men holding flasks flanking a palmette tree and the turbaned rider with a flying scarf are derived from the ancient Near Eastern imperial themes of the banquet and the hunt. The Arabic inscription framing each roundel proclaims, There is no god but Allah . This piece along with several others were reportedly found in the tomb of Bishop Gurb (died 1284) in the Cathedral of Barcelona in about 1890.
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