COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
CMA_.1939.505
AMICA Library Year:
2002
Object Type:
Textiles
Creator Nationality:
Asian; Middle Eastern; Syrian
Creator Name-CRT:
Egypt or Syria, Islamic period, late Umayyad or Abbasid, 8th century
Title:
Silk Decorative Tunic Band with a Hunter
Title Type:
Primary
View:
Back
Creation Date:
700s
Creation Start Date:
700
Creation End Date:
799
Materials and Techniques:
complementary weft-faced twill with inner warps (samit); silk
Classification Term:
Textiles
Dimensions:
Overall: 27cm x 6.4cm
AMICA Contributor:
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Owner Location:
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
ID Number:
1939.505
Credit Line:
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Provenance:
(Adolf Loewi, Los Angeles, California).
Context:
This prestigious silk band displays a stylized palmette leaf above a hunter who holds a sword and a shield and pursues a lion (see photo) and a rabbit. Another fragment with Arabic script indicates Islamic manufacture.
Photo of:
Detail of the Lion's Head, Silk Decorative Band with a Hunter (1939.505)
Green and ivory silk horizontal wefts dominate, interlaced by vertical warps 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.
Related Image Identifier Link:
CMA_.AM20020310.tif
