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Silk Sleeve Decoration with Hunters
The collection record classifies this work as textile. It is dated 700s. Recorded culture or place: Egypt or Syria, Umayyad period (661–750) or Abbasid period (750–1258).
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- Museum title
- Silk Sleeve Decoration with Hunters
- Date
- 700s
- Culture / origin
- Egypt or Syria, Umayyad period (661–750) or Abbasid period (750–1258)
- Materials and technique
- Silk: complementary weft-faced twill with inner warps (samit)
- Dimensions
- Overall: 28.9 x 20.3 cm (11 3/8 x 8 in.); Mounted: 37.8 x 29.2 cm (14 7/8 x 11 1/2 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1947.193
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
This silk sleeve blends technical and stylistic elements that occurred in early Islamic art. The sides of the sleeve are decorated with a lotus flower design, an ancient Egyptian motif that was absorbed into Hellenistic and Byzantine art. The upper panel displays a large medallion composed of leaves and palmettes, common vegetal motifs in Islamic art of this period. Below, the mace-wielding horseman is identified in Coptic inscriptions as Joseph, father of Jesus and saint within the Coptic faith. The image is likely derived from the Byzantine representation of the victorious emperor.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund · CC0
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