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Textile Fragments with Marine Imagery


Early Byzantine
first half of the 6th century
Largest fragment 28.2 x 28.5 cm
wool
BZ.1929.1.a

Not on view


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Bibliography
P. Ackerman, in The Art News, Nov. 13, 1926. Xerox in dossier.

Exposition Internationale d'Art Byzantin (Paris, 1931), cat. no. 190 bis, p. 92, and Pl. VII.

W. F. Volbach, in Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst (1931-32), pp. 109-110 and reproduction p. 109.

Peirce and Tyler, L'art byzantin, Vol. I (1932), pp. 91-92 and plates 153, 154.

P. Ackerman, Tapestry the Mirror of Civilization (1933) pp. 20-21, Pl. III.

W. F. Volbach, Duthuit et Salles, Art byzantin (1933), p. 73 and Pl. 83, 84.

C. Diehl, in L'histoire de la nation égyptienne, ed. G. Hanotaux (1933), Vol. III, reproduction only p. 481.

D. Talbot Rice, Byzantin Art (1935), p. 178. (Wrongly described as linen.)

L. Bréhier, La sculpture et les arts mineurs byzantins (1936), pp. 96-97 and Pl. LXXIX.

S. Cheney, A World History of Art (New York, 1937) (photo and permission to reproduce sent 8/20/1937).

Art of the Dark Ages, Worcester Art Museum (Worcester, 1937), cat. no. 140, p. 46, and fig. 140.

C. R. Morey, in Art News, Feb. 20, 1937, p. 16 and reproduction.

Permission granted to R. Stites of Antioch College to publish the textile in a book on Creative Aesthetics. See dossier for letter of Dec. 17, 1937.

W. R. Tyler, in Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, Vol. IX, 1, Nov. 1939, pp. 8-9 ff and figs. 6, 7.

Catalogue of Textile Fabrics, The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, compiled by F. Morris, 1940, Vol. I, p. 199. Excerpt in dossier.

P. Friedländer, Documents of Dying Paganism (1945), colored frontispiece and detail and text. Xerox in dossier.

G. Downey, Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Associations, LXXVI (1945), p. 283.

D. Thompson, Unpublished Ms. of the Catalogue of Textiles in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection (1976), no. 47 bis. Xerox in dossier.

J.-P. Jospin and G. Vial, "La tapisserie aux poissons d'Antinoé," Sommaire, No. 182, Sept 1983, 19 ff.


Exhibition History
Paris, "Exposition Internationale d'Art Byzantin (1931).

Worcester, MA, Worcester Art Museum, "Art of the Dark Ages," Feb. - Mar. 1937.


Acquisition History
Fragments from BZ.1929.1, removed during conservation work.


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Object Last Modified: 11/16/2023