id: 110045 accession number: 1928.648 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1928.648 updated: 2024-03-26 01:57:11.864000 Vestment fragment with stars in staggered squares, 1200s. Spain, probably Almeria. Silk and gold thread: lampas weave with areas of double cloth; overall: 28.6 x 26.7 cm (11 1/4 x 10 1/2 in.); mounted: 38.7 x 36.8 cm (15 1/4 x 14 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1928.648 title: Vestment fragment with stars in staggered squares title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1200s creation date earliest: 1200 creation date latest: 1299 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Spain, probably Almeria technique: Silk and gold thread: lampas weave with areas of double cloth department: Textiles collection: T - Islamic type: Textile find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 28.6 x 26.7 cm (11 1/4 x 10 1/2 in.); Mounted: 38.7 x 36.8 cm (15 1/4 x 14 1/2 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: 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). title: Al-Andalus: Art from Islamic Spain (Islamic art rotation) opening date: 2019-10-29T04:00:00 Al-Andalus: Art from Islamic Spain (Islamic art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 29, 2019-October 25, 2020). --- 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'} --- PROVENANCE originally from San Valero, Lerida, Spain date: footnotes: citations: (Adolph Loewi [1888-1977], Venice, Italy, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1928 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1928- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Underhill, Gertrude. "Two Hispano-Moresque Silks from the Vestments of San Valero." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 16, no. 4 (1929): 68-75. page number: p. 68-70, 74 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25137205. 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. 1944. page number: p. 16, no. 115 url: Weibel, Adè€le 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: p. 102, no. 79 url: Flury-Lemberg, Mechthild. Spuren kostbarer Gewebe. Riggisberg: Die Stiftung, 1995. page number: p. 116 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: Reproduced: P. 186, fig. 5.18; Mentioned: P.185-186 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1928.648/1928.648_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1928.648/1928.648_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1928.648/1928.648_full.tif