Fragment with Roundel Pattern

CC0 Public Domain Designation

13th-14th century

Spain

Status: On View, Gallery 58
Department: Textiles

Title: Fragment with Roundel Pattern
Place: Spain (Object made in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1201–1400
Medium: Silk and gilt animal substrate wrapped silk, weft-faced three- and four- color complementary weft plain weave with inner warps and areas of detached plain weave of inner warps and complementary ground wefts (red)
Dimensions: 10.3 × 13.2 cm (4 1/8 × 5 1/8 in.); Repeat: 8 × 8 cm (3 1/8 × 3 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Walter Byron Smith
Reference Number: 1950.1
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2000 Years of Silk Weaving, exh. cat. (New York: E. Weyhe, 1944), 18, cat. 123, pl. 34 (ill.).
Adèle Coulin Weibel, Two Thousand Years of Textiles: The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East (New York: Pantheon Books, 1952),100, cat. 75, pl. (ill.).
Christa Charlotte Mayer, Masterpieces of Western Textiles from The Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1969), 44, pl. 25.
Karel Otavsky, Mittelalterliche Textilen I. vol. I (Switzerland: Abegg-Stiftung Riggisberg, 1995), 194, cat. 107.
Sarah Molina and Cybele Tom, “Representing and Re-Presenting Textiles,” in On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival, eds. Isaac Facio, Nneka Kai, L Vinebaum, and Anne Wilson, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2025), 123, figs. 10 and 11 (ill.).

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2000 Years of Silk Weaving, in collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts, Jan.–Mar. 1944, cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of Western Textiles, Jan. 25–Mar. 2, 1969, cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, European Textile Masterpieces from Coptic Times through the 19th Century, Sept. 27, 1989-Jan. 22, 1990.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival, Sept. 6, 2025–Mar. 15, 2026, cat.

Private collection, Venice [inventory no. 8589, Loewi-Robertson archive document, 1989; copy in curatorial object file]; Adolph Loewi, Los Angeles, by 1944 [LACMA 1944, cat. 123; inventory no. 11039; letter from A. Lowei, Feb. 16, 1935; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1950.

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