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Weft-faced compound twill weaving roundels
possibly Mesopotamian
11th–12th century
Object Place: Persia
Medium/Technique
Silk
Dimensions
23 x 30 cm (9 1/16 x 11 13/16 in.); Legacy dimension: 23.0 x 30.0 cm
Credit Line
John Wheelock Elliot and John Morse Elliot Fund
Accession Number47.1459
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsFashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionInterlacing roundels with paired griffins and inscription around circumference. Pale brown and blue.
ProvenanceSaid to come from the Church of Saint-Saturnin de Vergy, Côte d'Or, France [see note 1]. Claudius Côte, Lyon; sold by Côte, through Christoph Bernoulli, Basel, to Adolph Loewi, Los Angeles; 1947, sold by Loewi to the MFA for $450. (Accession Date: November 13, 1947)
NOTES:
[1] According to Adèle Coulin Weibel, Two Thousand Years of Textiles (New York, 1952), p. 107, cat. no. 98. See also Sophie Desrosiers et al., Soieries et autres textiles de l'Antiquité au XVIe siècle (Paris, 2004), p. 224, cat. no. 117, for a comparative textile from the same cloth, which--according to an old handwritten note--is purported to have held the relics of St. Regnobert at the church of St. Saturnin, a church which has not been identified.
NOTES:
[1] According to Adèle Coulin Weibel, Two Thousand Years of Textiles (New York, 1952), p. 107, cat. no. 98. See also Sophie Desrosiers et al., Soieries et autres textiles de l'Antiquité au XVIe siècle (Paris, 2004), p. 224, cat. no. 117, for a comparative textile from the same cloth, which--according to an old handwritten note--is purported to have held the relics of St. Regnobert at the church of St. Saturnin, a church which has not been identified.