Fragment

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Textiles

Roman period (30 B.C.– 641 A.D.)/Arab period (641–969), 6th/7th century

Egypt, Akhmîn

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Fragment
Place: Egypt (Object made in)
Date: Made 501 CE–700 CE
Medium: Silk, weft-float faced complementary weft twill weave with inner warps
Dimensions: 26.6 × 11.7 cm (10 1/2 × 4 5/8 in.); Warp repeat: H.: 9.1 cm (3 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1984.529
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Adele Coulin Weibel, Two Thousand Years of Textiles: The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East (New York: Pantheon Books for the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1952), 91, pl. 52.
Isabelle Errera, Collection d’Anciennes Etoffes, 3rd edition (Brussels: Vromant & Co., and Lamertin, 1927), no. 1BB.
Julius Lessing, Die Gewebessammlung des Königlichen Kunstgewerbe-musum zu Berlin, vol. 1 (Berlin: E. Wasmuth Verlang, 1900), pl. 1b (upper right).
Otto von Falke, Decorative Silks, 3rd edition (New York: William Helburn, 1936).
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. 17113, 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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