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Hanging fragment with boar head

Unknown Artist

600s–early 700s

Hanging fragment with boar head by Unknown Artist

Medium

Wool and linen: tapestry weave

Dimensions

21 × 25.2 cm

Classification

Textile

Department

Textiles

Museum

Cleveland Museum of Art

Credit

John L. Severance Fund

Accession Number

1950.509

About this artwork

This fragment preserves parts of two distinct designs. In the lower section, a boar's head is framed by a pearl roundel; to left and right are fragments of two other roundels, and in the spandrels are segments of stylized flowers. In the field above are four feet of what must have been a rather large-scale horse standing in a meadow of flowers of which only fragments remain. A fifth hoof, turned in the opposite direction, indicates that originally the composition included a pair of horses addors...

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