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Source Description
The symmetrical pattern displays back-to-back green parrots with branches in their beaks and two speckled birds perched on the leaves of a long-stemmed palmette.
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128944
label
Palmettes and Birds from a Tunic or Curtain
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128944
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object
title
Palmettes and Birds from a Tunic or Curtain
description
The symmetrical pattern displays back-to-back green parrots with branches in their beaks and two speckled birds perched on the leaves of a long-stemmed palmette.
date
500s–600s
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CC0
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en
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Q79909568
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Textile
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 31.1 x 14 cm (12 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.); Mounted: 36.2 x 20.3 cm (14 1/4 x 8 in.)
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Egypt or Syria, Byzantine or Islamic period
accession
1951.535
Source extras
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Silk; complementary weft-faced twill weave with inner warps (samite)
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Palmettes and Birds from a Tunic or Curtain, 500s–600s. Egypt or Syria, Byzantine or Islamic period. Silk; complementary weft-faced twill weave with inner warps (samite); overall: 31.1 x 14 cm (12 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.); mounted: 36.2 x 20.3 cm (14 1/4 x 8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1951.535
collection
T - Coptic
didYouKnow
These elaborate patterns were woven on large, early looms known as drawlooms that automatically repeated designs across the width of the fabric, often in mirror-image symmetry.
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Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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2026-05-29 06:39:37.905000
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128944
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Textiles
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T - Coptic
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Silk; complementary weft-faced twill weave with inner warps (samite)
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