Description
Tapestry weave with warp of natural wool and weft of yellow, green, blue, orange and red wool woven into natural wool plain weave.
Bibliography
E.D. Macquire, Weavings from Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Egypt, The Rich. Life and the Dance, University of Illinois, 1999, pg. 107-108, no. B12.
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 114;
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Byzantine Collection, Washington, D.C.
