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accession number: 1927.380
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Taqueté fragment with star and cross pattern, 1200s. Spain, probably Almeria. Taqueté: silk and gold thread; average: 14 x 41 cm (5 1/2 x 16 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1927.380
title: Taqueté fragment with star and cross pattern
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creation date: 1200s
creation date earliest: 1200
creation date latest: 1299
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creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Spain, probably Almeria
technique: taqueté: silk and gold thread
department: Textiles
collection: T - Islamic
type: Textile
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measurements: Average: 14 x 41 cm (5 1/2 x 16 1/8 in.)
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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: Vestement of San Valero of Llerida
opening date: 1992-05-03T04:00:00
Vestement of San Valero of Llerida. Abegg-Stiftung, Bern, Switzerland (organizer) (May 3-November 1, 1992).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Vestment of San Valero of Llerida. Abegg-Stiftung, Riggisberg, Switzerland (May 3-November 1, 1992).', 'opening_date': '1992-05-03T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
(Adolph Loewi, Venice). Pieces of same silk used as patches on San Valero vestments in Barcelona Museum which, according to documentary evidence, were bought in 1279 in Tarragona and given to the church of San Vincent, Roda (near Lerida) and dedicated to San Valero.
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RELATED WORKS
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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: Reproduced: P. 70
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137114
Los Angeles County Museum. 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: Reproduced: P. 17, cat. no. 116, pl. 32
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May, Florence Lewis. Silk Textiles of Spain, Eighth to Fifteenth Century. New York: Printed by order of the trustees, the Hispanic Society of America, 1957.
page number: Reproduced: P. 77, figs. 50-51
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Indictor, Norman, Robert J. (Robert John) Koestler, Christopher Blair, and Anne E. Wardwell. “The Evaluation of Metal Wrappings from Medieval Textiles Using Scanning Electron Microscopy-Energy Dispersive x-Ray Spectrometry.” Textile History 19, no 1 (Spring 1988): 3-22.
page number: p. 3-22
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Flury-Lemberg, Mechthild. Spuren Kostbarer Gewebe. Riggisberg: Die Stiftung, 1995.
page number: Reproduced: P. 71
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Mackie, Louise W. Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, Yale University Press, 2015.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 186, fig. 5.19
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