{"data": {"id": 125229, "accession_number": "1947.192", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Square Ornament from a Tunic, 700s. Egypt or Syria, Umayyad period (661\u2013750) or Abbasid period (750\u20131258). Silk; complementary weft-faced twill weave with inner warps (samite); overall: 23.5 x 24.2 cm (9 1/4 x 9 1/2 in.); mounted: 31.1 x 31.8 cm (12 1/4 x 12 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1947.192", "current_location": "106A Migration Period & Coptic", "title": "Square Ornament from a Tunic", "creation_date": "700s", "creation_date_earliest": 700, "creation_date_latest": 799, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Egypt or Syria, Umayyad period (661\u2013750) or Abbasid period (750\u20131258)"], "technique": "Silk; complementary weft-faced twill weave with inner warps (samite)", "support_materials": [], "department": "Textiles", "collection": "T - Islamic", "type": "Textile", "measurements": "Overall: 23.5 x 24.2 cm (9 1/4 x 9 1/2 in.); Mounted: 31.1 x 31.8 cm (12 1/4 x 12 1/2 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.235, "height_inch": 9, "height_inch_fraction": 0.25, "width": 0.242, "width_inch": 9, "width_inch_fraction": 0.5}, "mounted": {"height": 0.311, "height_inch": 12, "height_inch_fraction": 0.25, "width": 0.318, "width_inch": 12, "width_inch_fraction": 0.5}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 309887, "title": "The Twain Shall Meet", "description": "<i>The Twain Shall Meet</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986).", "opening_date": "1985-10-30T05:00:00"}, {"id": 311451, "title": "Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries", "description": "<i>Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 26-June 6, 1991).", "opening_date": "1991-11-26T05:00:00"}, {"id": 282101, "title": "Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106", "description": "<i>Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 12, 2016-May 22, 2017).", "opening_date": "2016-04-12T04:00:00"}, {"id": 447668, "title": "Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106", "description": "<i>Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 18, 2021-November 13, 2022).", "opening_date": "2021-11-18T05:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "<em>Masterpieces of the Weaver's Art</em>. Hackley Art Gallery, Muskegon, MI (October 7-November 4, 1957).", "opening_date": "1957-10-07T00:00:00"}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "(Dikran G. Kelekian [1867\u20131951], New York, NY sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?\u20131947", "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1947\u2013", "sortorder": 3}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Seen as a prized decoration, designs like this were often cut out of older textiles and stitched onto unisex linen tunics.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "The folded edges on all four sides of this luxury silk fragment indicate that it decorated a unisex linen tunic. The symmetrical deer with suckling fawn flanking a simplified central tree of life continues an ancient theme in a naturalistic style. The roundel is connected on all four sides and displays heart-shaped floral borders. This fragment is said to have been found in Akhmim, Egypt, south of Cairo, where, during the 1880s, numerous related silk fragments were excavated.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60758945"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1947.192-square-ornament-from"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Shepherd, Dorothy. \"A Silk Fabric from Egypt.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 34, no. 8 (1947): 196-99.", "page_number": null, "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25141401"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 68", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n26"}, {"citation": "Beckwith, John. Caskets from Cordoba. [Victoria and Albert Museum Publications, 1958-1960]. London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1960.", "page_number": "p. 26, fig. 28", "url": null}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 32", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n56"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 32", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n54"}, {"citation": "Held, Shirley E. Weaving: A Handbook for Fiber Craftsmen. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973.", "page_number": "p. 36, fig. 60", "url": null}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 41", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n61"}, {"citation": "Keasbey, Doramay. Pattern Devices for Handweavers. Bethesda, MD (5031 Alta Vista Rd., Bethesda 20814): D. Keasbey, 1981.", "page_number": "p. 15, pl. 35", "url": null}, {"citation": "Neils, Jenifer. \"The Twain Shall Meet.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 72, no. 6 (1985): 326-59.", "page_number": "p. 358, no, 59", "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25159914"}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.192", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.192/1947.192_web.jpg", "width": "915", "height": "893", "filesize": "857466", "filename": "1947.192_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.192/1947.192_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "3318", "filesize": "10822665", "filename": "1947.192_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.192/1947.192_full.tif", "width": "5672", "height": "5536", "filesize": "94221536", "filename": "1947.192_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [{"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.192/1947.192_alt0_web.jpg", "width": "927", "height": "893", "filesize": "842673"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.192/1947.192_alt0_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "3276", "filesize": "11122189"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.192/1947.192_alt0_full.tif", "width": "5803", "height": "5592", "filesize": "97372100"}, "date_created": "2009-11-10T18:34:54", "annotation": ""}], "creditline": "Purchase from the J. 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