id: 124774 accession number: 1946.258 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1946.258 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:03.046000 Fragmentary roundel with eagle in gold ground, 1000s. Egypt, Fatimid period. Plain weave with inwoven tapestry weave: linen, silk, and gold filé; overall: 11.2 x 14 cm (4 7/16 x 5 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Grace Rainey Rogers in memory of her father, William J. Rainey 1946.258 title: Fragmentary roundel with eagle in gold ground title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1000s creation date earliest: 1000 creation date latest: 1099 current location: creditline: Gift of Grace Rainey Rogers in memory of her father, William J. Rainey copyright: --- culture: Egypt, Fatimid period technique: plain weave with inwoven tapestry weave: linen, silk, and gold filé department: Textiles collection: Textiles type: Textile find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 11.2 x 14 cm (4 7/16 x 5 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries opening date: 1991-11-26T05:00:00 Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 26-June 6, 1991). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Early Christian and Byzantine Art. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (April 24-June 27, 1947)', 'opening_date': '1947-04-24T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.), and Dorothy Eugenia Miner. Early Christian and Byzantine Art, An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, April 25-June 22 [1947]. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1947. page number: no. 786 url: von Wilckens, Leonia. "Fatimidische Gewebe mit gewirktem dekor im Verglei mit spanischen und sizilischen." In Salīm, Muḥammad ʻAbbās Muḥammad. Islamische Textilkunst des Mittelalters: Aktuelle Probleme. Riggisberg [Switzerland]: Abegg-Stiftung, 1997. page number: p. 157-171 url: Mackie, Louise W. Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015. page number: Reproduced: P. 116, fig. 3.32; Mentioned: P. 116, 215 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1946.258/1946.258_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1946.258/1946.258_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1946.258/1946.258_full.tif