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Source Description
Framed with hearts this large roundel displays a saddled horse galloping through a landscape, indicated by the stylized tree. The secondary motif of birds, partially visible in the corners, was repeated with the large roundels to form a colorful curtain. The many shades of color were skillfully achieved from only a few dyes, often the most expensive aspect of production: red and pink made from an insect dye, perhaps Armenian cochineal; blue from indigo; yellow and brown from fustic (a type of tree); green from fustic and indigo; and purple (horse’s mane) from the madder plant and indigo.
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Document identity
localId
126046
label
Curtain Fragment with Galloping Horse
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object
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1
Source metadata
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126046
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object
title
Curtain Fragment with Galloping Horse
description
Framed with hearts this large roundel displays a saddled horse galloping through a landscape, indicated by the stylized tree. The secondary motif of birds, partially visible in the corners, was repeated with the large roundels to form a colorful curtain. The many shades of color were skillfully achieved from only a few dyes, often the most expensive aspect of production: red and pink made from an insect dye, perhaps Armenian cochineal; blue from indigo; yellow and brown from fustic (a type of tree); green from fustic and indigo; and purple (horse’s mane) from the madder plant and indigo.
date
500s CE
citation
rights
CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60762930
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Textile
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 45.4 x 31.4 cm (17 7/8 x 12 3/8 in.); Mounted: 54 x 41.3 cm (21 1/4 x 16 1/4 in.)
cul
Egypt, Antinoë, Byzantine period
accession
1948.27
Source extras
tec
plain weave (tabby) with inwoven slit-tapestry weave; wool
tombstone
Curtain Fragment with Galloping Horse, 500s CE. Egypt, Antinoë, Byzantine period. Plain weave (tabby) with inwoven slit-tapestry weave; wool ; overall: 45.4 x 31.4 cm (17 7/8 x 12 3/8 in.); mounted: 54 x 41.3 cm (21 1/4 x 16 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1948.27
collection
T - Coptic
citations
citation
Peirce, Hayford, and Royall Tyler. L'art byzantin ... planches en phototypie, décrites et commentées. Paris: Librairie de France, 1932.
page_number
pl. 57a
citation
Shepherd, Dorothy G. "A Sixth-Century Coptic Tapestry Roundel." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 35, no. 4 (1948): 56-57.
page_number
p. 56-57
url
www.jstor.org/stable/25141455.
citation
Wadsworth Atheneum, Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, and Charles Crehore Cunningham. 2000 Years of Tapestry Weaving: A Loan Exhibition : Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Dec. 7, 1951 to Jan. 27, 1952 ; the Baltimore Museum of Art, Feb. 27, 1952 to Mar. 25, 1952. Hartford, Conn: Wardsworth Atheneum], 1951.
page_number
p. 22, no. 24
citation
Weibel, Adèle Coulin. 2000 Years of Textiles: The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East. New York: Pantheon Books, 1952.
page_number
no. 13, illus
citation
Cincík, Jozef G. Anglo-Saxon and Slovak-Avar Patterns of Cuthbert's Gospel: A Study of Slovak Art of the Early Carolingian Era. 1956.
page_number
fig. 3, pl. XI
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 71
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 31
citation
Justema, William. The Pleasures of Pattern. New York: Reinhold Book Corp, 1968.
page_number
p. 51
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 31
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 37
citation
Michalowski, Kazimierz, Jean-Pierre Corteggiani, and Alessandro Roccati. L'art de l'Égypte. Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 1994.
page_number
p. 422, fig. 764
creditline
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
updatedAt
2026-05-29 06:31:26.288000
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126046
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Textiles
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T - Coptic
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plain weave (tabby) with inwoven slit-tapestry weave; wool
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