Textile Fragment with Tree

6th-7th century

Not on view

Returned to lender

This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.

Trees like this stylized pomegranate with its red fruit appeared widely in domestic interiors on tapestries used as wall hangings and across openings. Perhaps meant as allusions to gardens, they may also be read as images of a heavenly paradise, as the pomegranate was a symbol of immortality.

Artwork Details

Overview

Exhibition History

Title: Textile Fragment with Tree
Date: 6th-7th century
Geography: Made in Possibly Egypt
Medium: Tapestry weave in polychrome wool and undyed linen on plain-weave ground of undyed linen
Dimensions: 34 1/4 x 24 7/16 in. (87 x 62 cm)
Classification: Textiles
Credit Line: Musée du Louvre, Département des Antiquités Égyptiennes, Paris (AF 12137)
Curatorial Department: Medieval Art and The Cloisters