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Fragment
New York, United States of America
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Hegira late 4th–5th century / AD 11th century
27.170.67
Linen and silk
Textile: L: 24.8cm, W: 23.5cm; Mount: L: 40.6cm, W: 38.9cm
Fatimid
Fustat, Egypt
This linen tiraz textile is enlivened with vibrantly coloured red, blue, and yellow animals and medallions. Unlike most tiraz, in which the primary decoration is an embroidered inscription, this textile depicts a hare and confronted peacocks. While the decorative motif refers to pre-Islamic Coptic and Sasanian textiles, the textile’s late date of the eleventh century reflects a trend toward classical revival in Fatimid artistic production. Two bands of kufic text repeat the word God in Arabic.
Rogers Fund, 1927
Vendor: Joseph Abemayor, Cairo
Former owner [dealer]: [Joseph Abemayor, Cairo, until 1927; sold to H.E. Winlock for MMA]
Walker, Daniel S. and Froom, Aimee, Tiraz: Inscribed Textiles from Islamic Workshops. Exhibition Notebook, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992: 15-16, no. 4.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1927
"Fragment" in Explore Islamic Art Collections. Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;us;Mus23;12;en
MWNF Working Number: US3 12
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