Detail View: The AMICA Library: Decoration from the Front or Back of a Tunic
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AMICA ID:
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CMA_.1982.107.b
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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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African; North African; Egyptian
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Egypt, Abbasid period, second half of the 8th century
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Title:
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Decoration from the Front or Back of a Tunic
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Title Type:
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Primary
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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751-800
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Creation Start Date:
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751
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Creation End Date:
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800
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Materials and Techniques:
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plain weave with slit-tapestry weave; wool
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Classification Term:
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Tapestries
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Style or Period:
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Abbasid period, mid 8th - mid 9th centuries
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Dimensions:
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Overall: 81.2cm x 19cm
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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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1982.107.b
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Credit Line:
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Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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Rights:
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Provenance:
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Mrs. Paul Mallon, Paris.
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Context:
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Classical figures and winged animals continued to be popular during the early Islamic period. The nude male may depict Dionysus (Greek god of wine) holding his thyrsos staff, ornamented with ivy leaves and pine cones, and pouring liquid from a small jug for the panther. The colorful and detailed winter-weight woolen tunic fragments would have decorated a tunic as seen in the square displayed nearby showing two figures within a jeweled border (1979.58). Photo of: Detail of the Panther's Head, Right Decorative Band from the Front or Back of a Tunic (1982.107.b) The facial features were achieved in tapestry weave by interlacing colored horizontal wefts only where they were needed in the panther's head. |
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Link to Work:
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CMA_.1982.107.a
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Link to Work:
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CMA_.1982.107.c
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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CMA_.AM20020728.tif
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