id: 118330 accession number: 1939.40 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.40 updated: 2024-04-12 11:21:25.841000 Mantle for a Statue of the Virgin with Lotus Blossoms and Medallions, c. 1430. Egypt and Spain. Silk and gilt-metal thread: lampas weave; overall: 70.5 x 111.2 cm (27 3/4 x 43 3/4 in.); mounted: 78.1 x 119.4 cm (30 3/4 x 47 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1939.40 title: Mantle for a Statue of the Virgin with Lotus Blossoms and Medallions title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1430 creation date earliest: 1422 creation date latest: 1438 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Egypt and Spain;Egypt technique: Silk and gilt-metal thread: lampas weave department: Textiles collection: T - Islamic type: Textile find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 70.5 x 111.2 cm (27 3/4 x 43 3/4 in.); Mounted: 78.1 x 119.4 cm (30 3/4 x 47 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Glory to our master, the sultan, the king translation: remark: inscription: The sultan, the king translation: remark: --- 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: Renaissance of Islam: Art of the Mamluks opening date: 1981-05-14T04:00:00 Renaissance of Islam: Art of the Mamluks. National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, DC (May 14-July 19, 1981); Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN (August 15-October 11, 1981); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (November 7, 1981-January 3, 1982); The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH (February 6-April 4, 1982); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (April 24-June 20, 1982); Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ (January 8-March 6, 1983); Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT (April 2-May 29, 1983). title: Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries opening date: 1991-11-26T05:00:00 Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 26-June 6, 1991). 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Gallery 207 textile rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 20, 2002-May 5, 2004).', 'opening_date': '2002-06-20T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE according to Mr. Elsberg, the mantle came from a church near Valencia, Spain. date: footnotes: citations: (H. [Herman] A. Elsberg [1869–1938], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1939 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1939- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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: pp. 144-45; Reproduced: p. 142 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. New York: E. Weyhe, 1944. page number: pl. 66, no. 291 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. 715 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n130 Schmidt, Heinrich Jakob. Alte Seidenstoffe; ein Handbuch für Sammler und Liebhaber. Braunschweig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1958. page number: fig. 137 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. 214 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n238 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. 214 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n238 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. 270 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n290 Atıl, Esin. Renaissance of Islam: Art of the Mamluks. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981. page number: no. 116, pp. 232-233 url: Wardwell, Anne E. "Flight of the Phoenix: Crosscurrents in Late Thirteenth- to Fourteenth-Century Silk Patterns and Motifs." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 74, no. 1 (1987): 2-35. page number: p. 22, fig. 27 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25159970 Indictor, Norman, Robert J. (Robert John) Koestler, Christopher Blair, and Anne E. Wardwell. “The Evaluation of Metal Wrappings from Medieval Textiles Using Scanning Electron Microscopy-Energy Dispersive x-Ray Spectrometry.” Textile History 19 (1). 1988. page number: p.3-22 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: Reproduced: P. 240, 270-271, fig. 7.31; Mentioned: P. 270 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 29 url: Flood, Finbarr Barry, and Gülru Necipoğlu, eds. A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2017. page number: Reproduced: p. 987 url: Peinado, Laura Rodriguez. "Los Textiles Como Objetos de Lujo y de Intercambio." In Las Artes en Al-Andalus y Egipto: Contextos e Intercambios. Susana Calvo Capilla, ed. Madrid: Ediciones de La Ergástula, 2017. page number: Mentioned: p. 199; Reproduced: p. 200 url: Akin, Esra. Muthanna / History, Theory, and Aesthetics. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2020. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 138, fig. 5.8 url: Clarke, Sarah E. Braddock, and Ryoko Yamanaka Kondo. Byzantine Silk on the Silk Roads: Journeys between East and West, Past and Present. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022. page number: Reproduced: p. 92, fig. 7.5 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1939.40/1939.40_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1939.40/1939.40_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1939.40/1939.40_full.tif