Fragment (two pieces sewed together). Ground: dark neutral purple 5/1 satin. Design: undulating vines and flying pheasants woven with gold (gilded skin wound on linen) thread, and pink and cream silk, weft, tied by fine pink silk warp. (The pattern weft go from selvedge to selvedge). 3/1 weft-faced twill pattern

The double-headed eagle became the primary symbol of the state during the late Byzantine centuries and was also adopted for liturgical use. This huge eagle was probably used as an altar cloth or as a podea, a skirt hung beneath an icon. The inscription, which connects the owner with distinguished imperial dynasties, exaggerated the claims of a pretender to the patriarchal throne.

Ground and part of the design black silk; figures of animals and birds, of brown silk or linen, which in places, has the appearance of having been wound with metal.  A similar piece is illustrated and described as above, in Collection d' Anciennes d' Étoffes, réunies et déscrites par Mme. Isabelle Errera, Bruxelles, 1901.  p. 43 and 44.  No. 75.  Called by Blanchet in his Notice sur quelque Tissus antiques etc. plate 28a as Italian 13th century and by Cox in his L'Art de decorer les Tissus, p. 5.  p 1. VII.  fig. 5.  art persan antérieur au  XIII siecles.

Green silk and gilt metallic yarns (yellow core)

Velluto ad inferriata tagliato ad un corpo, cesellato. Velluto ad inferriata (zetanino avvellutato) di color verde, cesellato con il motivo del melograno fiorito circoscritto dalla rosa lobata. L'arco superiore è incoronato da un altro melograno fiorito dal quale si dipartono foglie cordonate parallele alla lobatura della rosa

Pairs of animals with pseudo-Kufic writing on their bodies and pairs of birds in gold and silver on rose.

This tapestry is part of four hangings that have been reconstructed from what originally was a set of three tapestries depicting the Nine (or Ten?) Worthies.  The heroes depicted included King Arthur, Joshua, David, Hector of Troy, and Julius Caesar, along with various attendants.  One of the reconstructed hangings (32.130.2b, 47.101.1, 47.152) shows two of the three Hebrew Worthies in their settings and with nearly all of their attendant figures.  Another represents King Arthur (32.130.2a, 47.101.4), one of the three or possibly four figures that appeared in the original tapestry devoted to the Christian Worthies, together with some attendant figures.  The third and fourth pieces represent respectively Hector of Troy (47.101.2) and Julius Caesar (47.101.3), with attendant, taken from a third tapestry that depicted the three Pagan Worthies.  Other fragments (47.101.5 and 49.123), showing architectural elements, bits of landscape, and the incomplete figures of three cardinals and a bishop, all apparently unconnected to those parts of the three original hangings that survive, are preserved separately in the Metropolitan Museum.

Ogival forms containing addorsed birds withinb a leafy vine. In tan on blue.

Dark blue fabric patterned with vines and brocaded with gold in a design of the leg of a strong bird.

segurament correspon a un fragment de faixa femenina.

1400 / 1499

1400 / 1499

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