Fragment with musicians
Unknown Artist
1200s
Medium
Silk and gold thread: lampas weave with areas of double cloth
Dimensions
16.8 × 14 cm · mounted: 27.3 × 24.1 cm
Classification
Textile
Department
Textiles
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Accession Number
1932.137
About this artwork
The repeating pattern features female musicians playing tambourines. They wear long blue and blue-green robes in alternate rows. A lamp hangs between them, suggesting an evening setting. Traces of their black hair peek out from under red headdresses. This textile, along with several other fragments, was found within the pages of a Christian manuscript in the Cathedral of Vich, near Barcelona in northeastern Spain.