Pillow cover with Arabic inscription (Q60752193)
Label from: English (en)
artist:
no value
collection:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
country of origin:
Abbasid Caliphate (Q12536)
location of final assembly:
Oxyrhynchus (Q622640)
fabrication method:
tapestry weaving (Q29167534)
time period:
9th century (Q8083)
instance of:
textile artwork (Q22075301)
textile (Q28823)
catalog URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1959.48
information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog
description: This rare complete Egyptian pillow cover is a masterpiece of contrasting colors. Crimson and blue-green wool alternate in the ground and bird-inhabited roundels, supported by mustard-colored wool and undyed linen woven in tapestry weave. When folded down the center, based on examples from Egyptian burials, four birds form a unit on each side and are appropriately ascending in flight.
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