1924.111: Band with Geometric Design
Textile Arts
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1924.111
- Title
- Band with Geometric Design
- Classification
- Textile Arts
- Work Type
- textile
- Date
- 2nd-4th century CE
- Places
- Creation Place: Africa, Egypt
- Period
- Byzantine period, Early
- Culture
- Byzantine
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/215129
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Wool and linen
- Technique
- Woven, mixed technique
- Dimensions
- 6.35 x 7.94 cm (2 1/2 x 3 1/8 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross
- Accession Year
- 1924
- Object Number
- 1924.111
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- A purple, twisting narrow vine with serrated leaves runs between two bands of geometric interlace. The serrations of the leaves are exposed pairs of linen warps. The ‘flying shuttle’ technique using supplementary linen wefts creates the interlace design on top of purple woolen wefts, above and below the running vine. Areas of plain weave linen survive at the top and bottom of the band. The warps are paired in the area of weft-faced weave.
- Commentary
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Compare MFA 96.198, also from the Denman Waldo Ross Collection.
KMKG-MRAH ACO.Tx.0159 from Akhmim and Brooklyn Museum 26.739 are also good comparisons.
Exhibition History
Verification Level
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