The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Panel from a Large Curtain, Overlapping Leaves
300s–400s CE
Overall: 118.7 x 16 cm (46 3/4 x 6 5/16 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1983.145
Location: not on view
Description
These colorful overlapping leaves with interspersed buds along the sides originally formed a decorative panel in a large curtain. Together with several similar designs, they alternated with areas of undyed linen decorated with scattered wool and linen tapestry-woven motifs. Although decorative motifs were often woven into the ground fabric, this panel was sewn on afterwards. During the late Roman and early Christian period curtains with woven or applied decoration were used in churches and Christian meeting rooms to separate the clergy from the congregation. They were also hung in doorways and between columns both inside and outside. Their importance is evident in numerous portraits of religious figures and laymen represented between curtained arches.- Mrs. Paul Mallon, Paris.
- Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 31, 2010-April 1, 2011).The Year in Review for 1983. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984).
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