Detail View: The AMICA Library: Silk Decorative Tunic Band with a Hunter
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AMICA ID:
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CMA_.1939.505
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AMICA Library Year:
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2002
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Object Type:
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Textiles
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Creator Nationality:
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Asian; Middle Eastern; Syrian
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Egypt or Syria, Islamic period, late Umayyad or Abbasid, 8th century
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Title:
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Silk Decorative Tunic Band with a Hunter
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Title Type:
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Primary
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View:
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Back
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Creation Date:
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700s
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Creation Start Date:
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700
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Creation End Date:
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799
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Materials and Techniques:
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complementary weft-faced twill with inner warps (samit); silk
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Classification Term:
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Textiles
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Dimensions:
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Overall: 27cm x 6.4cm
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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ID Number:
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1939.505
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Credit Line:
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Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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Rights:
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Provenance:
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(Adolf Loewi, Los Angeles, California).
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Context:
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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. |
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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CMA_.AM20020310.tif
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