id: 126046 accession number: 1948.27 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1948.27 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:09.019000 Curtain Fragment with Galloping Horse, 500s CE. Egypt, Antinoë, Byzantine period. Plain weave (tabby) with inwoven slit-tapestry weave; wool ; overall: 45.4 x 31.4 cm (17 7/8 x 12 3/8 in.); mounted: 54 x 41.3 cm (21 1/4 x 16 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1948.27 title: Curtain Fragment with Galloping Horse title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 500s CE creation date earliest: 500 creation date latest: 599 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Egypt, Antinoë, Byzantine period technique: plain weave (tabby) with inwoven slit-tapestry weave; wool department: Textiles collection: T - Coptic type: Textile find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 45.4 x 31.4 cm (17 7/8 x 12 3/8 in.); Mounted: 54 x 41.3 cm (21 1/4 x 16 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: 35th Anniversary Exhibition opening date: 1951-06-20T04:00:00 35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951). title: Coptic Art opening date: 1963-04-01T05:00:00 Coptic Art. Villa Hügel, Essen, Germany (organizer) (April 1-July 31, 1963). title: Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation opening date: 2002-10-16T04:00:00 Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 16, 2002-October 27, 2003). title: Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106 opening date: 2012-05-23T04:00:00 Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 23, 2012-May 2, 2013). title: Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106 opening date: 2018-05-15T04:00:00 Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 15, 2018-May 13, 2019). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Essen, Villa Hügel, Koptische-Kunst, Christentum am Nil (Essen-Bredeney, 1963), no. 367, illus.', 'opening_date': '1963-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Zürich, Kusnthaus, Koptische Kunst, Christentum am Nil (Essen, 1963), no. 314, illus.', 'opening_date': '1963-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': "Paris, Petit Palais, L'Art Copte (Paris, 1964), no. 269, illus.", 'opening_date': '1964-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Vienna, Akademie der bildenden Kunste, Frühchristliche und koptische Kunst (Vienna, 1964), no. 598, fig. 116.', 'opening_date': '1964-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Gallery 210 textile rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 16, 2002-October 27, 2003).', 'opening_date': '2002-10-16T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (Dikran G. Kelekian, New York). date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Peirce, Hayford, and Royall Tyler. L'art byzantin ... planches en phototypie, décrites et commentées. Paris: Librairie de France, 1932. page number: pl. 57a url: Shepherd, Dorothy G. "A Sixth-Century Coptic Tapestry Roundel." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 35, no. 4 (1948): 56-57. page number: p. 56-57 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25141455. 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, Conn: Wardsworth Atheneum], 1951. page number: p. 22, no. 24 url: Weibel, Adèle Coulin. 2000 Years of Textiles: The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East. New York: Pantheon Books, 1952. page number: no. 13, illus url: Cincík, Jozef G. Anglo-Saxon and Slovak-Avar Patterns of Cuthbert's Gospel: A Study of Slovak Art of the Early Carolingian Era. 1956. page number: fig. 3, pl. XI 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. 71 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n27 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. 31 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n55 Justema, William. The Pleasures of Pattern. New York: Reinhold Book Corp, 1968. page number: p. 51 url: 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. 31 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n53 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. 37 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n57 Michalowski, Kazimierz, Jean-Pierre Corteggiani, and Alessandro Roccati. L'art de l'Égypte. Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 1994. page number: p. 422, fig. 764 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.27/1948.27_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.27/1948.27_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.27/1948.27_full.tif