About the Artwork
Textile
6th or 7th century
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Egyptian
Coptic
Silk
6 x 5 1/2 inches. (15.2 x 14.0 cm)
Textiles
African Art
Founders Society Purchase, William C. Yawkey Fund
47.75
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Provenance
2002, Hero Granger-Taylor
(Adolph Loewi, Los Angeles, California, USA)
1947-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Falke, Otto von, Kunstgeschichte der Seidenweberie, 2 vols, Berlin 1913. Vol. 1, p. 46, fig. 66
Weibel, Adele C., 2000 Years of Textile Art, New York, 1952, #52, p. 91, ill.
Granger-Taylor, Hero, "Coptic textiles in the Detroit Institute of Arts, " DIA Bulletin, vol. 79, no.1/2, 2005, pp. 47-59.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Coptic, Egyptian, Textile, 6th or 7th century, Silk. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William C. Yawkey Fund, 47.75.
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