New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Tapestry

Date1000-1460

MediumWool | tapestry weave

DimensionsOverall: 13 x 7 1/2 in. (33 x 19.1 cm)

ClassificationsLatin American

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Virginia Morris Pollak

Object number55.53.48

Terms

Birds
Yellow
Blue
Red
Green
Ica

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Not on view

DescriptionTapestry with eccentric wefts. Interlocking bird motif. Fragment of a tapestry strip having yellow, blue-red, blue, yellow, blue & blue-red borders to a section of diagonal tapestry woven birds on yellow, blue-red and blue grounds. Birds are blue, yellow, green & yellow outlined in blue-red, blue, blue-red & blue-red. Good condition, though the ends are ravelling. UV plexiglass covering, 6/80. Unavoidable ravelling (when mounted) attached.