id:			116641
accession number:	1937.23
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1937.23
updated:		2024-04-13 11:22:52.627000

Silk fragment, 1100s. Egypt or Iran, Ayyubid period, 1100s. Lampas: silk; overall: 36.8 x 23.5 cm (14 1/2 x 9 1/4 in.); mounted: 47 x 33.7 cm (18 1/2 x 13 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1937.23

title:				Silk fragment
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creation date:			1100s
creation date earliest:		1100
creation date latest:		1199
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creditline:			Dudley P. Allen Fund
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culture:	Egypt or Iran, Ayyubid period, 1100s
technique:	lampas: silk
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Islamic
type:		Textile
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measurements: Overall: 36.8 x 23.5 cm (14 1/2 x 9 1/4 in.); Mounted: 47 x 33.7 cm (18 1/2 x 13 1/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	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:		The Tree of Life
	opening date:   1955-01-07T05:00:00
	<i>The Tree of Life</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 7-March 8, 1955).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

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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: 	no. 52, pl. 15
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	Underhill, Gertrude. "Two Early Iranian Silks," The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art," (March 1938): 42 - 43.
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	Pope, Arthur Upham, A Survey of Persian Art, III, (New York, 1939), no. 29, pp 2012, 2035, fig. 647.
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	Weibel, Adele Coulin, 2000 Years of Silk Weaving (New York, 1944), no. 52., pl. 15.
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	Weibel, Adele Coulin. Two Thousand Years of Textile (New York: 1952), no. 111.
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	Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art (1958) no. 688, pg. 214.
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	Jairazbhoy, R.A. Oriental Influences in Western Art (Bombay, 1965) pl. 72.
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	Wehrahn-Stauch, L. "Animal Motifs on Fabrics [Animaux d l'Ancient Orient, Le Cahiers CIBA]," CIBA Review (1967), p. 12, pl. 5.
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	Ettinghausen, R.E., From Byzantium to Sasanian, Iran and the Islamic World, (Leiden, 1972), pl. XVI, fig. 56.
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	Pope, Arthur Upham, Phyllis Ackerman, and Theodore Bestermann. A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present. London: Oxford University Press, 1938. v. III
	page number: 	no. 29, pp. 2012, 2035, fig. 647
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	Underhill, Gertrude. "Two Early Iranian Silks." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 25, no. 3 (1938).
	page number: 	p. 42-45
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25137913.

	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. 7, repr. pl. 15
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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: 	no. 111
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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. 688
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n126

	Jairazbhoy, R. A. Oriental Influences in Western Art. New York: Asia Pub. House, 1965.
	page number: 	pl. 72
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	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. 214
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n238

	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. 214
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n238

	Ettinghausen, Richard. From Byzantium to Sasanian Iran and the Islamic World; Three Modes of Artistic Influence. Leiden: Brill, 1972.
	page number: 	pl. XVI, fig. 56
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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. 149, fig. 4.20; Mentioned: P. 33,147, 148, 204, 215
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	Mühlemann, Corinne. <em>Complex Weaves: Technique, Text, and Cultural History of Striped Silks</em>. Affalterbach: Didymos-Verlag,2023.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 49-50, fig. 16
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