id: 95647 accession number: 1916.1358 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1358 updated: 2023-12-05 07:46:29.966000 Silk hanging with embroidered tree of life, 1800s. Turkey, Ottoman period. Plain weave: silk; embroidery, chain stitch: silk; average: 228.6 x 172.7 cm (90 x 68 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade 1916.1358 title: Silk hanging with embroidered tree of life title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1800s creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1899 current location: creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade copyright: --- culture: Turkey, Ottoman period technique: plain weave: silk; embroidery, chain stitch: silk department: Textiles collection: T - Islamic type: Embroidery find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Average: 228.6 x 172.7 cm (90 x 68 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Luxuriance: Silks from Islamic Lands, 1250-1900 opening date: 2013-05-14T04:00:00 Luxuriance: Silks from Islamic Lands, 1250-1900. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 14, 2013-June 23, 2014). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Mackie, Louise W. Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 336-337, fig. 8.54 url: Highet, Juliet. "Silks from Islamic Lands." The Asian Art Newspaper: Monthly for Collectors, Dealers, Museums and Galleries 17, issue 5 (March 2014):16-18. page number: 18 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1358/1916.1358_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1358/1916.1358_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1358/1916.1358_full.tif