Description
Loop and cut pile weave with warp of natural linen and weft of yellow, ochre, rose, green, blue, dark green, purple, brown, and dark brown wool. Border of red wool braid.
Bibliography
A. Baginski and A. Tidhar, Textiles from Egypt 4th-13th Centuries C.E., Tel-Aviv, 1980, p. 49, no. 25.
E.D. Maguire, Weavings from Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Egypt, The Rich Life and the Dance, Urbana-Champaign, 1999, pp. 44-45, no. A5.
Exhibition History
Jerusalem, L.A. Mayer Memorial Institute for Islamic Art, Textiles from Egypt 4th-13th Centuries C.E., 1980.
Urbana-Champaign, Krannert Art Museum, Weavings from Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Egypt, The Rich Life and the Dance, 1999.
Acquisition History
Rose Choron (1916-2014), Switzerland, prior to 1980; thence by descent;
Purchased from Christie's, Lot 52, October 25, 2016;
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Byzantine Collection, Washington, D.C.