About the Artwork
Curtain Panel
possibly 5th century
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Egyptian
Coptic
Linen and wool
Overall: 27 1/2 × 25 × 19 3/4 inches (69.9 × 63.5 × 50.2 cm)
Textiles
African Art
Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund
46.75
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Provenance
excavated in (Egypt). (Marguerite Mallon)
1946-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Tapis et Tapisseries d'Orient de haute époque. Exh. cat. Paris, 1934, cat. no. 150.
Pozzi, John. "A propos de la récente exposition des Gobelins," Gazette des Beaux-Arts (October 1934).
Early Christian and Byzantine Art, An Exhibition held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, organized by the Walters Art Gallery. Exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art. 1947, cat. no. 793.
Weibel, Adele C. "Hellenistic and Coptic Textiles," The Art Quarterly, XI (1948): pp. 112-15 (106).
Weibel, Adele C. Two Thousand Years of Textiles: The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East. New York, 1952, no. 17, pp. 80-1.
Granger-Taylor, Hero. "Coptic textiles in the Detroit Institute of Arts," Bulletin of the DIA Bulletin 79, no.1/2 (2005): pp. 47-59.
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Coptic, Egyptian, Curtain Panel, possibly 5th century, linen and wool. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund, 46.75.
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