Floor or Cushion Cover Fragment with Running Hares

Description Rows of running hares (alternately upside down) and trees (lying on their sides) suggest that this textile was to be viewed from different directions, perhaps as a covering for a floor or cushion. The twill weave, a relatively new technique at the time, has produced a heavy, durable fabric, well suited to withstand the substantial wear such a covering would experience.

Provenance Maurice Nahman, Cairo [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1928 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1928