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Nov 10, 2009

Curtain Fragment with Galloping Horse

500s

Egypt, Antinoë, Byzantine period, 6th century

Plain weave (tabby) with inwoven slit-tapestry weave; wool

Overall: 45.4 x 31.4 cm (17 7/8 x 12 3/8 in.); Mounted: 54 x 41.3 cm (21 1/4 x 16 1/4 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1948.27

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Description

This large roundel framed with hearts displays a saddled horse galloping through a landscape, indicated by the stylized tree. The secondary motif of birds, partially visible in the corners, was repeated with the large roundels to form a colorful curtain. The many shades of color were skillfully achieved from only a few dyes, often the most expensive aspect of production: red and pink made from an insect dye, perhaps Armenian cochineal; blue from indigo; salmon (horse's nose and belly), yellow, and brown from fustic (different colors caused by the mordant, probably alum); green from fustic and indigo; and purple (horse's mane) from madder and indigo.

Provenance

(Dikran G. Kelekian, New York).

Citations

Peirce, Hayford, and Royall Tyler. L'art byzantin ... planches en phototypie, décrites et commentées. Paris: Librairie de France, 1932. pl. 57a

Shepherd, Dorothy G. "A Sixth-Century Coptic Tapestry Roundel." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 35, no. 4 (1948): 56-57. p. 56-57 www.jstor.org

Wadsworth Atheneum, Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, and Charles Crehore Cunningham. 2000 Years of Tapestry Weaving: A Loan Exhibition : Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Dec. 7, 1951 to Jan. 27, 1952 ; the Baltimore Museum of Art, Feb. 27, 1952 to Mar. 25, 1952. Hartford, Conn: Wardsworth Atheneum], 1951. p. 22, no. 24

Weibel, Adèle Coulin. 2000 Years of Textiles: The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East. New York: Pantheon Books, 1952. no. 13, illus

Cincík, Jozef G. Anglo-Saxon and Slovak-Avar Patterns of Cuthbert's Gospel: A Study of Slovak Art of the Early Carolingian Era. 1956. fig. 3, pl. XI

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 71 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 31 archive.org

Justema, William. The Pleasures of Pattern. New York: Reinhold Book Corp, 1968. p. 51

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 31 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 37 archive.org

Michalowski, Kazimierz, Jean-Pierre Corteggiani, and Alessandro Roccati. L'art de l'Égypte. Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 1994. p. 422, fig. 764

Exhibition history

Essen, Villa Hügel, Koptische-Kunst, Christentum am Nil (Essen-Bredeney, 1963), no. 367, illus.

Zürich, Kusnthaus, Koptische Kunst, Christentum am Nil (Essen, 1963), no. 314, illus.

Paris, Petit Palais, L'Art Copte (Paris, 1964), no. 269, illus.

Vienna, Akademie der bildenden Kunste, Frühchristliche und koptische Kunst (Vienna, 1964), no. 598, fig. 116.

Gallery 210 textile rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 16, 2002-October 27, 2003).

35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951).

Coptic Art. Villa Hügel, Essen, Germany (organizer) (April 1-July 31, 1963).

Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 16, 2002-October 27, 2003).

Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 23, 2012-May 2, 2013).

Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 15, 2018-May 13, 2019).

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