id:			150631
accession number:	1982.107
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1982.107
updated:		2023-03-11 20:51:16.916000

Decorations and Sleeve from a Tunic, 700s. Egypt, Umayyad period (661–750) or Abbasid period (750–1258). Wool; plain weave with slit-tapestry weave; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1982.107

title:				Decorations and Sleeve from a Tunic
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creation date:			700s
creation date earliest:		700
creation date latest:		799
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creditline:			Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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culture:	Egypt, Umayyad period (661–750) or Abbasid period (750–1258)
technique:	wool; plain weave with slit-tapestry weave
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Coptic
type:		Textile
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Year in Review for 1982
	opening date:   1983-01-05T05:00:00
	<i>The Year in Review for 1982</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 6, 1983).

	title:		Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation
	opening date:   2001-11-02T05:00:00
	<i>Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 2, 2001-October 15, 2002).

	title:		Coptic Textile Rotation
	opening date:   2014-03-18T04:00:00
	<i>Coptic Textile Rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 18, 2014-March 2, 2015).

	title:		Coptic Textile Rotation
	opening date:   2019-05-13T04:00:00
	<i>Coptic Textile Rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 13, 2019-May 11, 2020).

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	Mrs. Paul Mallon, Paris.
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Classical figures and winged animals remained popular during the early Islamic period. The nude male may portray Dionysus, Greek god of wine; he holds his thyrsus, a staff ornamented with ivy leaves and pine cones, as he pours liquid from a small jug for the panther. These colorful designs would have decorated the front or back of a tunic and one sleeve. Elaborate embellishments were cherished. Thus, once a tunic began to fray, its decoration was sewn onto a new one, as seen on this winter-weight woolen tunic cloth. Its finely detailed motifs, some with eccentric drawing, are woven in tapestry weave, the equivalent of painting with weft thread; discontinuous horizontal wefts are interlaced only where needed in the design.
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