Medallion
date: label: Date
content: 5th–7th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Tapestry medallion depicting a a male and a female figure facing each other. Each appears to be raising a goblet. Figures are woven in white, blue, green and yellow on a red ground.
place: label: made in
content: Egypt
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John Pierpont Morgan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1902-1-80
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Medallion
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: warp: paired S-spun linen; wefts: S-spun linen, S-spun wools; linen backing Technique: plain weave with discontinuous weft (slit tapestry) with supplementary weft wrapping Label: linen in-woven with wool slit tapestry
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 10.9 x 10.8 cm (4 5/16 x 4 1/4 in. )
label: Dimensions
content: Warp: 10.9 cm (4 5/16 inches)
label: Dimensions
content: Weft: 10.8 cm (4 1/4 inches)