Images

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=BA33C36CAFF629E0F436D1021DC9186CFCC68F315CBFEA65526ACE6400A41AC8&s=24247294&se=1128270358&v=2&f=1939.505_o2.jpg

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=53EC51086FD62F5378DE230D20510FB80842A403442BA8E95592998A1A4B1316&s=24247294&se=1128270358&v=1&f=%5C1939.505det01_o2.jpg

Additional Views

Dec 8, 2009

Silk Decorative Tunic Band with a Hunter

700s

Egypt or Syria, Umayyad period (661–750) or Abbasid period

(750–1258)

Silk: complementary weft-faced twill with inner warps (samit)

Overall: 27.3 x 6.7 cm (10 3/4 x 2 5/8 in.); Mounted: 34.9 x 14.3 cm (13 3/4 x 5 5/8 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1939.505

Location

not on view

Description

This prestigious silk band displays a stylized
palmette leaf above a hunter who holds a sword
and a shield and pursues a lion and a rabbit.
Another fragment with Arabic script indicates
Islamic manufacture. Green and ivory silk wefts
(horizontal threads) dominate, interlaced by warps
(vertical threads) in a diagonal twill weave. A
second inner warp does not come to the surface.
Such compound structures were woven on large
looms with automatic pattern repetition, called
drawlooms.

Provenance

?–1939

(Adolf Loewi [1888–1977], Los Angeles, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art,

1939–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Los Angeles County Museum. 2000 Years of Silk Weaving: An Exhibition Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Museum in Collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York : E. Weyhe, 1944. no. 11

Weibel, Adèle Coulin. Two Thousand Years of Textiles; The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East. New York: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts [by] Pantheon Books, 1952. no. 53, p. 91

Katzenberg, Dena S. Blue Traditions; Indigo Dyed Textiles and Related Cobalt Glazed Ceramics from the 17th Through the 19th Century. [Baltimore]: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1973.

Exhibition history

Masterpieces of the Weavers' Art. Hackley Art Gallery, Muskegon, MI (October 7-November 3, 1957).

Blue Traditions: Indigo Dyed Textiles and Related Glazed Ceramics from the 17th through the 19th Century. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (December 4-January 20, 1974).

2000 Years of Silk Weaving. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 18-April 16, 1944).

The Indigo Tradition in Textiles. The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (organizer) (December 2, 1973-January 20, 1974).

Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 2, 2001-October 15, 2002).

Cite this page

{{cite web|title=Silk Decorative Tunic Band with a Hunter|url=https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.505|year=700s|access-date=08 December 2023|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Contact us

The information about this object, including provenance, may not be currently accurate. If you notice a mistake or have additional information about this object, please email collectionsdata@clevelandart.org.

To request more information about this object, study images, or bibliography, contact the Ingalls Library Reference Desk.

All images and data available through Open Access can be downloaded for free. For images not available through Open Access, a detail image, or any image with a color bar, request a digital file from Image Services.

You are here:

Images

Silk Decorative Tunic Band with a Hunter

Silk Decorative Tunic Band with a Hunter

Egypt or Syria, Umayyad period (661–750) or Abbasid period

Location

Download and Share

Description

Contact us