id:			113117
accession number:	1932.137
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1932.137
updated:		2025-03-25 11:13:43.993000

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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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
	<i>The Silver Jubilee Exhibition</i>. 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
	<i>2000 Years of Silk Weaving</i>. 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
	<i>Al-Andalus: Art from Islamic Spain (Islamic art rotation)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 29, 2019-October 25, 2020).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Medieval Art</em>. Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (January 3-28, 1952).', 'opening_date': '1952-01-03T05:00:00Z'}

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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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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. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> 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. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. 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. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. 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. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. 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.” <em>Textile History</em> 19 (1). 1988.
	page number: 	p. 3-22
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	Mackie, Louise W. <em>Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century</em>. 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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