Linen Fragment (from vestment?)
CultureEgyptian
MediumWoven linen
DimensionsOverall: 2 3/4 × 15 1/2 inches (6.99 × 39.37 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number33-1561
On View
Not on viewCollections
Exhibition History[None known at this time.]
With Frascione, by July 3, 1933 [1];
Purchased from Frascione, possibly through Harold Woodbury Parsons, as Pre-Columbian from Central America, by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1933.
NOTES:
[1] This was probably either Enrico Frascione (1869–1938) or his son Vittorio (1915–2006), who were dealers in Florence. See Eliot Rowlands, “Harold Parsons, the Italian Art Market, and a Letter of 1948,” in Denise M. Budd and Lynn Catterson, eds., Italy for Sale: Alternative Objects, Alternative Markets (London: Brill, 2023), 380–81.
Lucy Roy Sibley, “Coptic Textiles at the Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City: A Stylistic and Structural Analysis” (PhD diss., University of Missouri, Columbia, 1981), 123–26, 144–46, 152–56, 164, 167, 204–05, 232, 294–300, figs. 22–23.
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