Bringing the Holy Land Home: The Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the Reconstruction of a Medieval Masterpiece

Medallion with Equestrian Figure (DO BZ.1937.29)

This rectangular silk fragment is woven in beige, red, golden yellow, green, blue, and purple. It features a medallion with a an equestrian figure in its central field, who aims his arrow at a feline under his horse’s hooves. The medallion’s frame is filled with vegetal motifs.  The corners of the fragment feature the remnants of further patterning, possibly floral elements.

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