id:			95591
accession number:	1916.1311
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1311
updated:		2023-03-03 07:01:09.145000

Curtain or bedcover, early 1800s. Tajikistan, Ura Tube. Plain weave: cotton; embroidery: silk; average: 216.5 x 188.6 cm (85 1/4 x 74 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade 1916.1311

title:				Curtain or bedcover
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creation date:			early 1800s
creation date earliest:		1800
creation date latest:		1825
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creditline:			Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade
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culture:	Tajikistan, Ura Tube
technique:	plain weave: cotton; embroidery: silk
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Islamic
type:		Embroidery
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measurements: Average: 216.5 x 188.6 cm (85 1/4 x 74 1/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Floral Delight: Textiles from Islamic Lands
	opening date:   2014-07-09T04:00:00
	<i>Floral Delight: Textiles from Islamic Lands</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 9, 2014-May 4, 2015).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Mr. Jeptha Homer Wade II [1857-1926] and Mrs. Ellen Garretson Wade [1859-1917], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?-1916
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1916-
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Known as <em>suzani</em>, embroideries with elaborate floral decoration from Central Asia were a significant part of a bride’s dowry and were ceremoniously displayed on special occasions. Women embroidered suzani, mothers passing their skills on to their daughters. Floral and foliate motifs generally dominate, emboldened with several shades of red and multiple borders, perhaps conveying cosmological, medicinal, or fertility associations. However, few display a more bountiful blossoming garden than seen here. Flora radiates from the central fanlike bouquet, a design echoed in the corners of the field and in the wide border, characteristic of work from Bukhara, Uzbekistan. Patterns were drawn on several loosely joined cotton cloths and then embroidered in chain stitch.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Mackie, Louise W. Symbols of Power: <em>Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century</em>. Cleveland, OH; New Haven, CT: The Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 402; Reproduced: fig. 9.62, p. 403
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