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Medallion

Unknown5th–7th century

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Square wool tapestry panel containing an almost frontal bust of a woman with dark hair knotted at the back, gazing to her left, on a red ground. Broad frame imitating gold set with cabochons and rectangular faceted jewels in blue, green, red and white. The woman's shoulders are covered with a garment of sky blue and shades of pink; she wears a white band in her hair, which is mingled dark blue and brown wefts.

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  • Title: Medallion
  • Creator: Unknown
  • Date Created: 5th–7th century
  • Physical Dimensions: w146 x h153 cm
  • Type: Medallion
  • Rights: Gift of John Pierpont Morgan
  • Medium: Medium: warp: S-spun wool; wefts: S-spun wool Technique: slit tapestry
  • Provenance: Before 1902, Stanislaus Baron collection. 1902, purchased by John Pierpont Morgan and given to the Hewitt sisters.
  • Dimensions: H x W: 15.3 x 14.6 cm (6 x 5 3/4 in.)
  • Bibliography: Craft Horizons vol. XV no. 3 (May- June 1955) p. 30. (May Art Bulletin vol. 2 No. 2 (June 1941), p. 165.Brooklyn Museum. Pagan and Christian Egypt. (Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1941) no. 206 p. 67; p. 46. Bossert, Dr. H. Th. Geschichte des Kunstgewerbes aller Zeiten und Voker. (Berlin: 1932) tafel VII, p. 117. Bolbach, W. F. adn Kuhnel, Earnst. Late Antique Coptic and Islamic Textiles of Egypt. (New York, 1926) plate 25. Wulff, O. and W. F. Volbach. Spatantike und Kopische Stoffe... in den Staatlichen Museen. (Berlin: 1926) plate 16 and p. 15.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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