Textile with Flower Motive
Unknown Artist
14th century
Medium
Silk, linen, gold thread
Dimensions
Overall: 1 9/16 × 3 7/8 in. (4 × 9.8 cm) Storage (Mat): 5 1/2 × 8 1/4 in. (14 × 21 cm)
Classification
Textiles-Woven-Brocade
Culture
Italo-Arabic
Department
Medieval Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1909
Accession Number
09.50.991
Tags
Art Historical Context
This exquisite 14th-century *Textile with Flower Motive* is small fragment of woven brocade, measuring just 1 9/16 × 3 7/8 inches, from luxurious silk, linen, and gold thread. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum Art's Medieval Art departmentacquired through the Rogers Fund in 9), it exemplifies theulent textiles produced during a vibrant era of cultural exchange. The delicate floral patterns, a hallmark tag of the piece, evoke the lush gardens of medieval imagination, rendered with intricate precision. Its Italo-Arabic classification highlights the fusion of Italian and Islamic artistic traditi...