id: 96266 accession number: 1916.1980 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1980 updated: 2023-12-07 06:01:38.539000 Ornamental Square from a Tunic, AD 400s. Egypt, Byzantine period. Undyed linen and dyed wool: tapestry weave with supplementary weft wrapping; overall: 21 x 20 cm (8 1/4 x 7 7/8 in.); mounted: 28.6 x 27.6 cm (11 1/4 x 10 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1916.1980 title: Ornamental Square from a Tunic title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: AD 400s creation date earliest: 400 creation date latest: 499 current location: creditline: Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust copyright: --- culture: Egypt, Byzantine period technique: Undyed linen and dyed wool: tapestry weave with supplementary weft wrapping department: Textiles collection: T - Coptic type: Textile find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 21 x 20 cm (8 1/4 x 7 7/8 in.); Mounted: 28.6 x 27.6 cm (11 1/4 x 10 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Inaugural Exhibition opening date: 1916-06-06T05:00:00 Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916). title: Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation opening date: 2001-11-02T05:00:00 Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 2, 2001-October 15, 2002). title: Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106 opening date: 2011-04-04T04:00:00 Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 4, 2011-May 21, 2012). title: Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106 opening date: 2016-04-12T04:00:00 Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 12, 2016-May 22, 2017). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * First National Silk Convention. Paterson City Hall, Paterson, NJ (October 12–21, 1915). * 2000 Years of Tapestry Weaving. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT (December 7, 1951-January 27, 1952); Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (February 27-March 25, 1952). --- PROVENANCE Mrs. Chauncey J. [Mary A. I. Mitchell] Blair [1856–1940], Chicago, IL, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?–1916 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1916– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Meyer-Reifstahl, Rudolf A.. First National Silk Convention: [Exhibition] City Hall, Paterson, N.J., October 12th, to 21st., 1915. [Paterson, NJ?]: [Chamber of Commerce?], 1915. page number: no. 3, p. 19 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925. page number: Reproduced: p. 65 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook_80839/page/n67 Wadsworth Atheneum, Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, and Charles Crehore Cunningham. 2000 Years of Tapestry Weaving: A Loan Exhibition : Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Dec. 7, 1951 to Jan. 27, 1952 ; the Baltimore Museum of Art, Feb. 27, 1952 to Mar. 25, 1952. Hartford, CT: Wardsworth Atheneum, 1951. page number: no. 36, pl. III. url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 45 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n23 Francovich, Géza de. 1963. "L' Egitto, la Siria e Costantinopoli: problemi di metodo". Rivista Dell'Istituto Nazionale D'Archeologia E Storia Dell'Arte / Istituto Nazionale D'Archeologia E Storia Dell'Arte . 83-229. page number: 139, fig. 72 url: Thompson, Deborah. 1965. “A Fatimid Textile of Coptic Tradition with Arabic Inscription.” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 4: 145–50. page number: fig. 8, pl. XXXVIII url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 30 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n54 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 30 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n52 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 36 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n56 Kajitani, Nobuko. Koputo gire. Kyōto: Kyōto Shoin, 1981. page number: p. 48, pl. 63 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1980/1916.1980_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1980/1916.1980_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1980/1916.1980_full.tif