id:			98504
accession number:	1918.225
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.225
updated:		2025-05-17 11:13:15.529000

Velvet with gold discs, late 1200s or earlier. Iran, probably Tabriz, Ilkhanid period. Silk, gilt-metal thread; brocaded velvet; overall: 30.5 x 20.6 cm (12 x 8 1/8 in.); mounted: 34.9 x 25.4 cm (13 3/4 x 10 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1918.225

title:				Velvet with gold discs
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creation date:			late 1200s or earlier
creation date earliest:		1200
creation date latest:		1299
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creditline:			Dudley P. Allen Fund
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culture:	Iran, probably Tabriz, Ilkhanid period
technique:	silk, gilt-metal thread; brocaded velvet
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Islamic
type:		Velvet
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measurements: Overall: 30.5 x 20.6 cm (12 x 8 1/8 in.); Mounted: 34.9 x 25.4 cm (13 3/4 x 10 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		2000 Years of Silk Weaving
	opening date:   1944-01-09T05:00:00
	<i>2000 Years of Silk Weaving</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 18-April 16, 1944).

	title:		Luxuriance: Silks from Islamic Lands, 1250–1900
	opening date:   2013-05-14T04:00:00
	<i>Luxuriance: Silks from Islamic Lands, 1250–1900</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 14, 2013-June 23, 2014).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Bacri Freres, Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1918
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1918–
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RELATED WORKS

	id: 		98591
	Velvet Fragment in Two Pieces, 1300s. Iran or Iraq, 14th century. Velvet, lancé, silk and Cyprian gold around silk core; overall: 27.9 x 17.8 cm (11 x 7 in.); mounted: 35.6 x 28.3 cm (14 x 11 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1918.30.b
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CITATIONS

	Wardwell, Anne E. "Panni Tartarici: Eastern Islamic Silks Woven with Gold and Silver (13th and 14th Centuries)." In <em>Islamic Art III, </em>95-173. New York: The Islamic Art Foundation, 1989.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 95-173; Reproduced: Fig. 57, 77
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	Hoeniger, Cathleen S. “Cloth of Gold and Silver: Simone Martini's Techniques for Representing Luxury Textiles.” <em>Gesta</em> 30 (2): 154–62.
	page number: 	p. 160
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	Mackie, Louise W. <em>Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century</em>. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015.
	page number: 	Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 228, fig. 6.13
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