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Fragment of Dress Fabric

Fragment of Dress Fabric

Unidentified Artist

Damask Textile Fragment

Damask Textile Fragment

Unidentified Artist

Woven Silk Textile Fragment

Woven Silk Textile Fragment

Unidentified Artist

Cope Hood depicting the Adoration of the Magi

Cope Hood depicting the Adoration of the Magi

Unidentified Artist

Hip Wrapper (Pha Nung) with Stylized Floral and Foliate Decor

Hip Wrapper (Pha Nung) with Stylized Floral and Foliate Decor

Thai

Long-Sleeved Outer Robe (Uchikake) with Decoration of Landscape, Waves, and Peonies

Long-Sleeved Outer Robe (Uchikake) with Decoration of Landscape, Waves, and Peonies

Japanese

A wide silk robe hung with its sleeves straight out. The coat is patterned with large checkered squares that are tan, blue, purple, orange. There is also a thin, golden geometric pattern all over. Large embroidered flowers and leaves go across the sleeves and along the bottom hem.

Nō Robe (Karaori) with Decoration of Irises over an Alternating-Color Block Ground with Basketweave Pattern

Japanese

Sleeve Band: Personification

Sleeve Band: Personification

Byzantine

A rectangular textile fragment depicting a cornice-like motif on a pink ground with yellow, green, orange and blue designs showing birds, fruit, faces, a cross, and geometric shapes.

Fragment (of a Hanging?) with Jeweled Border

Byzantine

Carpet

Carpet

Caucasian

Roundel Fragment: Mounted Hunters and Animals

Roundel Fragment: Mounted Hunters and Animals

Byzantine

Textile Fragment: Duck and Flowers

Textile Fragment: Duck and Flowers

Byzantine

A textile fragment with a red background bearing a woven portrait of a bearded man next to a hand grasping a staff.

Fragments of a Hanging: St. Theodore and Inscription

Coptic

Beshir Carpet

Beshir Carpet

Afghan

Prayer Carpet

Prayer Carpet

Turkish

Textile Fragment: Rabbit

Textile Fragment: Rabbit

Byzantine

A round textile fragment with an off-white ground and a small central roundel depicting a saint with a halo. The roundel is bordered by a circle with multicolored stripes, a pattern of birds and flowers, another multicolored circle, and red and yellow vines around the edge.

Roundel: Personification with Candelabra Plants

Byzantine

An off-white, rectangular textile fragment with a purple border depicting plants and animals around three sides and a panel at the top showing four human figures dancing between columns.

Tunic Fragment: Four Dancers under Arches

Byzantine

A circular textile fragment with irregular borders depicting flowers in a vase in purple on a yellowed white ground with a red border.

Roundel: Flourishing Vine

Coptic

A textile fragment showing a roundel with a red center and a dark blue border. The border contains horizontal stripes of various colors and the roundel has a multicolored pattern of hearts, flowers, and vines.

Roundel with Multicolored Ivy Leaves

Byzantine

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