Figured woven silk textile fragment with birds
Unknown Artist
5th–6th century
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
Tags
Birds