id: 118249
accession number: 1939.35
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Fragment with palmette arches with Alhambra wall pattern, 1300s. Spain, Granada. Silk and gilt-metal thread: lampas weave; overall: 48.3 x 25.4 cm (19 x 10 in.); mounted: 58.1 x 35.2 cm (22 7/8 x 13 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1939.35
title: Fragment with palmette arches with Alhambra wall pattern
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creation date: 1300s
creation date earliest: 1300
creation date latest: 1399
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creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Spain, Granada
technique: Silk and gilt-metal thread: lampas weave
department: Textiles
collection: T - Islamic
type: Textile
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CREATORS
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measurements: Overall: 48.3 x 25.4 cm (19 x 10 in.); Mounted: 58.1 x 35.2 cm (22 7/8 x 13 7/8 in.)
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inscription: horizontal rows of staggered arch-like forms enclose knotted and interlaced Kufic inscriptions: "Success."
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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: Islamic Gallery 207 Rotation
opening date: 2001-06-19T04:00:00
Islamic Gallery 207 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 19, 2001-June 3, 2002).
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).
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
* {'description': "Masterpieces of the Weavers' Art. Hackley Art Gallery, Muskegon, MI (October 7-November 3, 1957).", 'opening_date': '1957-10-07T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Gallery 207 textile rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 19, 2001-June 3, 2002).', 'opening_date': '2001-06-19T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
(Estate of H. A. Elsberg, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?-1939
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1939-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Gertrude Underhill. "Textiles from Spain and Portugal Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 16, no. 10 (1929): 183-91.
page number: p.184
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25137255.
Underhill, Gertrude. "Textiles from the H. A. Elsberg Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 26, no. 9 (1939): 143-46.
page number: p. 143-6
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25138043.
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. 18, no. 125, pl. 35
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Weibel, Adè€le 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: p. 105, no. 88
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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. 130
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. 220
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n244
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. 220
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n244
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. 277
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n297
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. 199, fig. 5.31; Mentioned: P. 200
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Blessing, Patricia."Draping, Wrapping, Hanging: Transposing Textile Materiality in the Middle Ages." The Textile Museum Journal 45, (2018): 2-21.
page number: Reproduced: p. 12, fig. 6
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