id: 112965
accession number: 1931.61
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Textile Fragment with the Annunciation, 1370–1400. Italy. Silk with gold thread; lampas weave; overall: 23.2 x 47.6 cm (9 1/8 x 18 3/4 in.); mounted: 28.6 x 53.3 cm (11 1/4 x 21 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1931.61
title: Textile Fragment with the Annunciation
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creation date: 1370–1400
creation date earliest: 1370
creation date latest: 1400
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creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund
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culture: Italy
technique: Silk with gold thread; lampas weave
department: Textiles
collection: Textiles
type: Textile
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measurements: Overall: 23.2 x 47.6 cm (9 1/8 x 18 3/4 in.); Mounted: 28.6 x 53.3 cm (11 1/4 x 21 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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: When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story
opening date: 1981-12-01T05:00:00
When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 1, 1981-January 17, 1982).
title: Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages
opening date: 1985-01-22T05:00:00
Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 22-March 17, 1985).
title: Renaissance Textiles (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115
opening date: 2012-11-14T05:00:00
Renaissance Textiles (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 14, 2012-December 10, 2013).
title: Liturgical Textiles and Manuscripts from Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy (Manuscript and Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115
opening date: 2018-12-05T05:00:00
Liturgical Textiles and Manuscripts from Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy (Manuscript and Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 5, 2018-December 2, 2019).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance 1400-1600. Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (November 18, 1958-January 4, 1959)', 'opening_date': '1958-11-18T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
(Adolph Loewi [1888-1977], Los Angeles, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?–1931
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1931–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire (Belgium), and Isabelle Errera. Catalogue d'étoffes anciennes et modernes décrites par Isabelle Errera. Bruxelles: Vromant, 1927.
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Gertrude Underhill. "Two Fifteenth Century Brocades." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 18, no. 4 (1931):
page number: 64-69.
url: Accessed June 28, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/25137377.
Underhill, Gertrude. "Textiles from the H. A. Elsberg Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 26, no. 9 (1939): 143-46.
page number: p. 143-146
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25138043
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. 15, catalog number 102
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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: p. 137, catalog number 206
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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. 164
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n41
Detroit Institute of Arts, and Paul L. Grigaut. Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance, 1400-1600; The Detroit Institute of Arts [Exhibition] November 18, 1958-January 4, 1959. 1958.
page number: p. 79, catalog number 174
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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. 80
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n104
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. 80
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n104
Wardwell, Anne E. 1977. “The Stylistic Development of 14th- and 15th-Century Italian Silk Design.” Aachener Kunstblätter / Hrsg. Im Auftr. Des Vorstandes Des Aachener Museumsvereins 47.1976/77(1977), 177-226.
page number: p. 189-191, fig. 21
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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. 66
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n86
Martin Nagy, Rebecca. Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985.
page number: p. 26, 58
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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 (1). 1988.
page number: p. 3-22
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