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Roundel: Putto on a Horse
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A figure nude except for flowing cape rides a white horse with its mouth open wide, perhaps whinnying. Red yarn marks out details of the figure's face, hand, and bellybutton against the golden body of the putto. Figure and horse are against indigo background with red border.
Slit and interlock tapestry. Strongly eccentric wefts. Several areas of ground fabric survive and are folded underneath the tapestry roundel.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of The Hagop Kevorkian Foundation in memory of Hagop Kevorkian
Title: Roundel: Putto on a Horse
Description:
A figure nude except for flowing cape rides a white horse with its mouth open wide, perhaps whinnying.
Red yarn marks out details of the figure's face, hand, and bellybutton against the golden body of the putto.
Figure and horse are against indigo background with red border.
Slit and interlock tapestry.
Strongly eccentric wefts.
Several areas of ground fabric survive and are folded underneath the tapestry roundel.
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