id: 106698 accession number: 1924.743 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1924.743 updated: 2023-03-25 11:14:20.227000 Wine bearers in landscape, from a robe, 1525–50. Iran, Safavid period (1501–1722). Silk: lampas; overall: 85.1 x 38.1 cm (33 1/2 x 15 in.); mounted: 91.4 x 45.7 cm (36 x 18 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1924.743 title: Wine bearers in landscape, from a robe title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1525–50 creation date earliest: 1525 creation date latest: 1550 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Iran, Safavid period (1501–1722) technique: Silk: lampas department: Textiles collection: T - Islamic type: Textile find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 85.1 x 38.1 cm (33 1/2 x 15 in.); Mounted: 91.4 x 45.7 cm (36 x 18 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00 The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). title: 2000 Years of Silk Weaving opening date: 1944-01-09T05:00:00 2000 Years of Silk Weaving. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 18-April 16, 1944). title: For Modern America from the Ancient Near East opening date: 1948-02-24T05:00:00 For Modern America from the Ancient Near East. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-March 21, 1948). title: Lost Cities opening date: 1960-03-20T05:00:00 Lost Cities. Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (organizer) (March 20-May 20, 1960). title: Islamic Art opening date: 1970-06-15T04:00:00 Islamic Art. Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN (organizer) (June 15-October 1, 1970). 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 * Exhibition of Persian Art. Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (October 11, 1926-January 1, 1927). * Exhibition of Persian Art. Iranian Institute, New York, NY (April 22-July 1, 1940). * Exhibition of textiles from the First to the Nineteenth Century. Grand Rapids Art Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI (November 3-30, 1941). * Masterpieces in Weaving. Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO ([May 15-June 30, 1945). * Masterpieces of the Weavers' Art. Hackley Art Gallery, Muskegon, MI (October 7-November 4, 1957). * Woven Treasures of Persian Art. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (April 1-May 23, 1959). * Lost Cities. Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (March 20-May 20, 1960). * Islamic Art Across the World. Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN (June 15-October 1, 1970). --- PROVENANCE Mrs. Chauncey J. [Mary Anne Italia Mitchell] Blair [1856-1940], Chicago, IL, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1924 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1924- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Iran is renowned for representations of large human figures in luxury silks during the Safavid period. Symbolic images of beauty and love characterize this signature silk in which a wine bearer appears in a landscape with cypresses and blossoming prunus trees, a pond, and a rocky hill along with animals of royal hunts. Cypresses and long-neck bottles were metaphors for elegance and male beauty while cypresses entwined by blossoming trees, paired pheasants, youth, and wine impart themes of love. The asymmetrical composition contrasts vitality and order, which contributes to concealing the repeated design inherent in patterned silks. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925. page number: Reproduced: p. 65 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook_80839/page/n67 Milliken, William Mathewson, et al. “In Memoriam: Jeptha Homer Wade.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 13, no. 4, 1926, pp. 63–91. page number: Reproduced: p. 79 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25136919 Reath, Nancy Andrews, and Eleanor B. Sachs. Persian Textiles and Their Technique from the Sixth to the Eighteenth Centuries, Including a System for General Textile Classification. New Haven: Pub. for Pennsylvania Museum of Art by Yale University Press, 1937. page number: Reproduced: pl. 64 url: Pope, Arthur Upham, Phyllis Ackerman, and Theodore Bestermann. A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present. London: Oxford University Press, 1938. page number: Vol. III, p. 2084, and Vol. VI, pl. 1011 url: 2000 Years of Silk Weaving: An Exhibition Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Museum in Collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York: E. Weyhe, 1944. page number: cat. no. 258 url: Weibel, Adèle Coulin. Two Thousand Years of Textiles; The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East. New York: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts [by] Pantheon Books, 1952. page number: pl. 132 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 733 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n133 Flemming, Ernst, and Renate Jaques. Encyclopedia of Textiles: Decorative Fabrics from Antiquity to the Beginning of the 19th Century, Including the Far East and Peru. New York: Praeger, 1958. page number: p. 255 url: Woven Treasures of Persian Art; Persian Textiles from the 6th to the 19th Century. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum, 1959. page number: Mentioned: p. 35, cat. no. 56 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 216 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n240 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 216 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n240 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 273 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n293 Wearden, Jennifer Mary, and Patricia L. Baker. Iranian Textiles. London: V & A Pub, 2010. page number: p. 13, pl. 3 url: 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. 346-347, fig. 9.5 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1924.743/1924.743_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1924.743/1924.743_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1924.743/1924.743_full.tif