Figured woven silk textile fragment with birds

Medium

Silk, weft-faced compound twill (Samit) weave

Dimensions

Overall: 3 3/4 x 22 3/4in. (9.5 x 57.8cm)

Classification

Textiles-Woven

Culture

Byzantine

Department

Medieval Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Josef and Marsy Mittleman Gift and Rogers Fund, 2000

Accession Number

2000.374

Rights

Public Domain

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