id: 118292
accession number: 1939.38
share license status: CC0
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.38
updated: 2025-03-06 12:16:03.528000
Lampas with scenes of wild animals, late 1500s-early 1600s. Iran, Safavid period (1501–1722). Silk and gilt-metal thread: lampas, brocaded; overall: 55.4 x 28.5 cm (21 13/16 x 11 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1939.38
title: Lampas with scenes of wild animals
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creation date: late 1500s-early 1600s
creation date earliest: 1575
creation date latest: 1625
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creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Iran, Safavid period (1501–1722)
technique: Silk and gilt-metal thread: lampas, brocaded
department: Textiles
collection: T - Islamic
type: Textile
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CREATORS
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measurements: Overall: 55.4 x 28.5 cm (21 13/16 x 11 1/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: For Modern America from the Ancient Near East
opening date: 1948-02-24T05:00:00
For Modern America from the Ancient Near East. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-March 21, 1948).
title: Islamic Art
opening date: 1970-06-15T04:00:00
Islamic Art. Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN (organizer) (June 15-October 1, 1970).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': '2000 Years of Silk Weaving. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 18-April 16, 1944); Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (May 12-June 4, 1944); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (January 9-February 29, 1944).', 'opening_date': '1944-01-09T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Woven Treasures of Persian Art. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles, CA (April 1-May 23, 1959)', 'opening_date': '1959-04-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Islamic Art Across the World. Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN (June 18-October 1, 1970).', 'opening_date': '1970-06-18T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
H. [Herman] A. Elsberg [1869–1938], 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
Pope, Arthur Upham, Phyllis Ackerman, and Theodore Bestermann. A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present. London: Oxford University Press, 1938.
page number: Vol. VI, Pl. 1041
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Underhill, Gertrude. “Textiles from the H. A. Elsberg Collection.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 26, no. 9, 1939, pp. 143–146.
page number: Mentioned: p. 146
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25138043
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: Reproduced: pl. 64
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Woven Treasures of Persian Art; Persian Textiles from the 6th to the 19th Century. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum, 1959.
page number: Mentioned: p. 35, cat. no. 55
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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. 349-350, fig. 9.8
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IMAGES
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