id: 113117 accession number: 1932.137 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1932.137 updated: 2020-11-04 19:47:42.292000 Fragment with musicians, 1200s. Spain, probably Almeria. Silk and gold thread: lampas weave with areas of double cloth; overall: 16.8 x 14 cm (6 5/8 x 5 1/2 in.); mounted: 27.3 x 24.1 cm (10 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1932.137 title: Fragment with musicians title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1200s creation date earliest: 1200 creation date latest: 1299 current location: 116 Islamic 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: 16.8 x 14 cm (6 5/8 x 5 1/2 in.); Mounted: 27.3 x 24.1 cm (10 3/4 x 9 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: 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 * Medieval Art. Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (January 3-28, 1952). --- PROVENANCE said to have come from binding of 13th century manuscript at Vich date: footnotes: citations: (H. A. Elsberg, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1932 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1932- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: The repeating pattern features female musicians playing tambourines. They wear long blue and blue-green robes in alternate rows. A lamp hangs between them, suggesting an evening setting. Traces of their black hair peek out from under red headdresses.

This textile, along with several other fragments, was found within the pages of a Christian manuscript in the Cathedral of Vich, near Barcelona in northeastern Spain. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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: pl. 34, catalog number 123 url: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), and Maurice Sven Dimand. A Handbook of Muhammadan Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1944. page number: fig. 183 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: catalog number 75 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. 125 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n36 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. 218 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n242 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. 218 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n242 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. 275 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n295 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 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. 185; Mentioned: p. 184-185 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1932.137/1932.137_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1932.137/1932.137_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1932.137/1932.137_full.tif