id:			117656
accession number:	1938.300
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1938.300
updated:		2025-05-17 11:13:15.593000

Fragment with peacocks and inscription, 1000–1100s. Iraq, probably Baghdad, Seljuq period. Plain weave: silk warp and cotton weft (mulham); embroidery, couched and split stitches: silk, gilt and silver thread; overall: 31.5 x 40.5 cm (12 3/8 x 15 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1938.300

title:				Fragment with peacocks and inscription
title in original language:	
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creation date:			1000–1100s
creation date earliest:		1000
creation date latest:		1199
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Iraq, probably Baghdad, Seljuq period
technique:	plain weave: silk warp and cotton weft (mulham); embroidery, couched and split stitches: silk, gilt and silver thread
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Islamic
type:		Embroidery
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 31.5 x 40.5 cm (12 3/8 x 15 15/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	[bottom]: ". . . [the Compassiona]te [?].  Praise be to God, Lord of the worlds and the wor[lds?]."  [top]: ". . . command and glory and power and good fortune and . . . peace and command and command [one word garbled]."
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Mme Paul [Marguerite] Mallon [d. 1977], Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1938
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1938–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Lamm, Carl J. <em>Cotton in Mediaeval Textiles of the Near East</em>. Paris: P. Geuthner, 1937.
	page number: 	p. 126
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	Wiet, Gaston. "Tissus Brodes Mesopotamiens." <em>Ars Islamica</em> 4 (1937): 54-63.
	page number: 	pp. 54–63, fig. 3
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25167029

	Underhill, Gertrude. "An Eleventh-Century Mesopotamian Embroidery." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 26, no. 1 (January 1939): 4–5.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 4–5
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25137977

	Cott, Perry Blythe. <em>Siculo-Arabic Ivories</em>. [Princeton]: Publ. for the Department of Art and Archaeology of Princeton University, 1939.
	page number: 	Reproduced: pl. 75d
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	<em>Museion</em>, XIII (April 1939), p. 17.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 17
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	Monneret de Villard, Ugo. <em>Le pitture musulmane al soffitto della Cappella palatina in Palermo</em>. Roma: La Libreria dello Stato, 1950.
	page number: 	p.  36, no. 164
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	Dimand, Maurice Sven, and Donald Newton Wilber. <em>L’arte dell’Islam</em>. Firenze: Sansoni, 1972.
	page number: 	Reproduced: fig. 179
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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. 159, fig. 4.31; Mentioned: P. 158
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