Two Border Fragments

Textiles

Roman period (30 B.C.– 641 A.D.), 5th/6th century

Egypt, Akhmin

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Two Border Fragments
Place: Egypt (Object made in)
Date: Made 401 CE–600 CE
Medium: Silk, weft-float faced twill weave of three-color complementary weft and inner warps
Dimensions: a: 26.5 × 10.7 cm (10 1/8 × 4 1/4 in.); b: 22.8 × 10.7 cm (9 × 4 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1984.528a-b
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Christa C. Mayer Thurman, Recent Acquisitions: A Collection of Thirteenth-and Fourteenth-Century Woven Fabrics in Chicago, Textile History 20, 2 (1989): 262, note 1 (mentioned).

Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Gift, Bequest and Purchase: A Selection of Textile Acquisitions from 1982–1987, Mar. 18–Aug. 14, 1989.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, European Textile Masterpieces from Coptic Times through the 19th Century, Sept. 27, 1989–Jan. 22, 1990.

Loewi-Robertson, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, by 1984 [invoice object no. 17091, July 18, 1984, and incoming permanent receipt RX14775, Apr. 17, 1984, copies in curatorial object file, Textiles Department]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1984.

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