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Sleeve Fragment with a Band with Fish and Blossoms

Sleeve Fragment with a Band with Fish and Blossoms

Object Name: Fragment
Date: 7th–10th century
Geography: Egypt
Culture: Coptic
Medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave
Dimensions: 7.87 in. high 7.00 in. wide (20 cm high 18 cm wide)
Classification: Textiles
Credit Line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890
Accession Number: 90.5.167
Not on view
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This sleeve fragment illustrates many of the characteristics associated with early Islamic textiles found in Egypt. Symmetrically arranged between two plain, dark bands, delicately colored fish, leaves, and buds form a lozenge pattern around a central rosette set within a gemmed roundel and a repeating pattern of stylized trees. The structured sprinkling of flora (generally buds and leaves) and fauna is referred to as a "scattered" motif. Like the weft-patterned, applied border, here with chevrons, the scattered motif became popular toward the end of the sixth and seventh centuries.
  • Provenance

    Emil Brugsch-Bey, Cairo (until 1890; sold to Baker); George F. Baker, New York (1890; gifted to MMA)

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