id: 126046
accession number: 1948.27
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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
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creation date: 500s CE
creation date earliest: 500
creation date latest: 599
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creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Egypt, Antinoë, Byzantine period
technique: plain weave (tabby) with inwoven slit-tapestry weave; wool
department: Textiles
collection: T - Coptic
type: Textile
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CREATORS
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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.)
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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).
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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'}
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PROVENANCE
(Dikran G. Kelekian, New York).
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Peirce, Hayford, and Royall Tyler. L'art byzantin ... planches en phototypie, décrites et commentées. Paris: Librairie de France, 1932.
page number: pl. 57a
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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