The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 20, 2024
Star and Cross Pattern from a Tomb Cover(?)
800s-900s
Overall: 8.5 x 24.1 cm (3 3/8 x 9 1/2 in.); Mounted: 15.2 x 30.5 cm (6 x 12 in.)
Location: not on view
Description
This fragment is one of several that may have come from a tomb in the Caucasus (the region between the Black and Caspian seas). The design displays rows of eight-pointed stars, here with a rooster on a blue ground, alternating with striped pointed crosses.- said to have been found in a tomb in the Caucasus in the late 19th century. Loewi-Robertson acquired it from anonymous French collection.
- Gallery 105 textile rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 20, 2010-June 13, 2011).Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 12, 2000-October 25, 2001).Gallery 210 textile rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11, 2000-October 21, 2001).Year in Review: 1977. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1977-January 22, 1978).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1977.17