id: 113117
accession number: 1932.137
share license status: CC0
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1932.137
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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
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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: Silk and gold thread: lampas weave with areas of double cloth
department: Textiles
collection: T - Islamic
type: Textile
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CREATORS
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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.)
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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: 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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Medieval Art. Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (January 3-28, 1952).
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PROVENANCE
said to have come from binding of 13th century manuscript at Vich
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(H. A. Elsberg, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?-1932
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1932-
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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.
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RELATED WORKS
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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
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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
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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: catalog number 75
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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. 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
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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, fig. 5.16; Mentioned: P. 184-185
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