Textile Fragment, early 12th century. Linen ground, silk tapestry-woven decorative band, 3 1/2 x 10 3/8in. (8.9 x 26.4cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc., 86.227.102. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 86.227.102_PS1.jpg)
Textile Fragment, early 12th century. Linen ground, silk tapestry-woven decorative band, 3 1/2 x 10 3/8in. (8.9 x 26.4cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc., 86.227.102. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 86.227.102_acetate_bw.jpg)
Textile Fragment
Arts of the Islamic World
Later Fatimid tiraz textiles demonstrate a revival of Late Antique and Coptic motifs, including the hares and back-to-back birds inhabiting the central medallions of this textile fragment. Depictions of animals and birds, combined with lavish banded ornamentation of colorful, stylized motifs, overtook the importance of historical inscriptions in later Fatimid textiles of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
MEDIUM
Linen ground, silk tapestry-woven decorative band
DATES
early 12th century
PERIOD
Fatimid Period
DIMENSIONS
3 1/2 x 10 3/8in. (8.9 x 26.4cm)
Frame: 1 15/16 x 9 1/16 x 16 1/16 in. (5 x 23 x 40.8 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
Arts of the Islamic World
ACCESSION NUMBER
86.227.102
CREDIT LINE
Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Textile Fragment, early 12th century. Linen ground, silk tapestry-woven decorative band, 3 1/2 x 10 3/8in. (8.9 x 26.4cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc., 86.227.102. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 86.227.102_PS1.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 86.227.102_PS1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2007
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