Description
100 pile weave with warp of natural linen and ground weft of natural linen, pattern weft of light yellow, medium yellow, orange, yellow-green, dark green, pink, rose, blue, dark blue, grey, red and dark red wool, weft wrapping; self bands, occasional weft-wrapped loops of natural linen.
Bibliography
E.D. Macquire, Weavings from Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Egypt, The Rich Life and the Dance, University of Illinois, 1999, pg. 41, no. A1.
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
Collection of Rose Choron (1916-2014), Switzerland;
Purchased from the Stair Galleries, February 25, 2017, Auction: Objects & Curiosities from Around the World, Lot 106;
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Byzantine Collection, Washington, D.C.