COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
CMA_.1959.124
AMICA Library Year:
1998
Object Type:
Textiles
Creator Name:
Unknown
Creator Nationality:
Asian; Central Asian
Creator Name-CRT:
Central Asia, Sogdiana, 8th - 9th century
Title:
Hunters in Roundels
Title Type:
Primary
View:
Full View
Creation Date:
8th - 9th Century
Creation Start Date:
700
Creation End Date:
899
Materials and Techniques:
compound twill weave, silk
Dimensions:
Overall: 26.5cm x 25.5cm
AMICA Contributor:
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Owner Location:
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
ID Number:
1959.124
Credit Line:
Gift of The Textile Art Alliance
Context:
Textile with Hunters in RoundelsWeft-faced compound twill; silk (two fragments mounted together)Central Asia, Sogdiana, 700s-800sThe Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Textile Arts Club 1959.124 andPurchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1982.284(Cat. no. 2)These textiles are woven with floral roundels that enclose horsemen huntinglions. The theme of horsemen hunting with lances, the floral frames of theroundels, and the costumes of the hunters were all inspired by silks fromthe Byzantine world. The stiff,abstracted style, however, ischaracteristic of Sogdian silks.Silks woven in Sogdiana were often traded to distant markets. Thesefragments were preserved in an Egyptian grave where they were found sewn asornaments onto a tunic.
Related Image Identifier Link:
CMA_.1959.124.tif
