id:			129825
accession number:	1952.256
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.256
updated:		2020-09-28 09:00:22.864000

Fragmentary Icon Panel, Christ in Glory (?) and Evangelists, 750 - 850. Egypt, Abbasid period, mid 8th - mid 9th centuries. Slit-and dovetailed-tapestry weave; wool; overall: 53.3 x 80.7 cm (21 x 31 3/4 in.); mounted: 63.5 x 90.2 cm (25 x 35 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1952.256

title:				Fragmentary Icon Panel, Christ in Glory (?) and Evangelists
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creation date:			750 - 850
creation date earliest:		750
creation date latest:		850
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Egypt, Abbasid period, mid 8th - mid 9th centuries
technique:	slit-and dovetailed-tapestry weave; wool
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Islamic
type:		Textile
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measurements: Overall: 53.3 x 80.7 cm (21 x 31 3/4 in.); Mounted: 63.5 x 90.2 cm (25 x 35 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Coptic Textile Rotation
	opening date:   2012-05-23T04:00:00
	<i>Coptic Textile Rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 23, 2012-May 2, 2013).

	title:		Coptic Textile Rotation
	opening date:   2018-05-15T04:00:00
	<i>Coptic Textile Rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 15, 2018-May 13, 2019).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 10-October 10, 1965).<br>Gallery 210 textile rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 16, 2002-October 27, 2003).

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PROVENANCE

	(Mrs. Paul Mallon, New York).
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wall description: 
In this extraordinary fragment with a rare background resembling woven silk patterns, two roundels in the corners display the busts of haloed Evangelists holding books and raising their right hands in a gesture of teaching. In the center, the large roundel preserves traces of an enthroned figure, presumably that of Christ in Glory (the jeweled throne is visible on the left). A geometric pattern of zigzags and triangles decorates the border. Woven on a verticle loom, tapestry weave has colorful horizontal wefts that are interlaced only in the area needed for the pattern; slits are formed when the colored wefts turn back around the same vertical warp for several rows. Warp and wefts reference the basic directional patterns of weaving—warp being the longitudinal threads with the transverse weft being drawn over and under the warp.
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