id: 113436 accession number: 1932.42 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1932.42 updated: 2025-02-09 00:04:24.612000 Velvet panel with four youths smelling flowers, 1625–50. Iran, Isfahan or Yazd, Safavid period (1501-1722). Silk: velvet, brocaded, and pile-warp substitution; gilt- and silver-metal thread; overall: 157.5 x 72.7 cm (62 x 28 5/8 in.); mounted: 167.6 x 83.2 cm (66 x 32 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1932.42 title: Velvet panel with four youths smelling flowers title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1625–50 creation date earliest: 1625 creation date latest: 1650 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Iran, Isfahan or Yazd, Safavid period (1501-1722) technique: Silk: velvet, brocaded, and pile-warp substitution; gilt- and silver-metal thread department: Textiles collection: T - Islamic type: Velvet find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 157.5 x 72.7 cm (62 x 28 5/8 in.); Mounted: 167.6 x 83.2 cm (66 x 32 3/4 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: The Exhibition of Persian Art: 7000 Years of Art in Iran opening date: 1961-10-19T04:00:00 The Exhibition of Persian Art: 7000 Years of Art in Iran. Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (organizer) (October 19, 1961-January 31, 1962). title: Luxuriance: Silks from Islamic Lands, 1250–1900 opening date: 2013-05-14T04:00:00 Luxuriance: Silks from Islamic Lands, 1250–1900. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 14, 2013-June 23, 2014). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Woven Treasures of Persian Art; Persian Textiles from the 6th to the 19th Century. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (April 1-May 23, 1959).', 'opening_date': '1959-04-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': "7000 ans d'art en Iran. Petit Palais, Paris, France (October 1961-January 1962).", 'opening_date': '1961-10-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE said to have originally come from the Jaipur State Treasury date: footnotes: citations: (Dikran G. Kelekian [1867-1951], 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: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Waley, Arthur. The Year Book of Oriental Art and Culture. London: E. Benn, Limited, 1925. page number: Mentioned; Vol. 1, p. 59 url: Underhill, Gertrude. “A Shah Abbas Velvet of the Early Seventeenth Century.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 19, no. 4, 1932, pp. 51–54. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 51-54 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25137469 Reath, Nancy Andrews, and Eleanor B. Sachs. Persian Textiles and Their Technique from the Sixth to the Eighteenth Centuries, Including a System for General Textile Classification. New Haven: Pub. for Pennsylvania Museum of Art by Yale University Press, 1937. page number: p. 11, 37, 41, 64, 130, plate 89 url: 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. New York: E. Weyhe, 1944. page number: p. 34, cat. no. 250 url: Weibel, Adèle Coulin. "2000 years of silk weaving." The Art Quarterly. 7.1944, pp. 191-204. page number: no. 250 url: Fifty Masterpieces of Textiles. [Victoria and Albert Museum Publications, 1950-1951]. London: H.M. Stationery Off, 1951. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 87, fig. 42 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: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 121, pl. 137 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. 736 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n134 Woven Treasures of Persian Art; Persian Textiles from the 6th to the 19th Century. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum, 1959. page number: Mentioned: pp. 45-46, cat. no. 89 url: Ghirshman, Roman. Sept mille ans d'art en Iran: Petit Palais, Octobre 1961-Janvier 1962. Paris: Association francaise d’action artistique, 1961. page number: p. 202, cat. no. 1136 url: 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. 217 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n241 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. 217 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n241 Kahlenberg, Mary. "A Mughal Personage Velvet." The Burlington Magazine 115, no. 848 (1973): page number: p. 723-27 url: www.jstor.org/stable/877527 Irwin, John. "'Aśokan' Pillars: A Reassessment of the Evidence." The Burlington Magazine 115, no. 848 (1973). page number: p. 706-20, reproduced p. 721, fig. 23 url: www.jstor.org/stable/877526 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. 276 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n296 Wilson, Kax. A History of Textiles. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1979. page number: Reproduced: pl. 34 url: Wearden, Jennifer Mary, and Patricia L. Baker. Iranian Textiles. London: V & A Pub, 2010. page number: p. 12, fig. 2 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: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 366-367, fig. 9.25 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1932.42/1932.42_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1932.42/1932.42_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1932.42/1932.42_full.tif