id: 118330
accession number: 1939.40
share license status: CC0
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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
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creation date: c. 1430
creation date earliest: 1422
creation date latest: 1438
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creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Egypt and Spain;Egypt
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: 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.)
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inscriptions:
inscription: Glory to our master, the sultan, the king
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inscription: The sultan, the king
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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: 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).
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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'}
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PROVENANCE
according to Mr. Elsberg, the mantle came from a church near Valencia, Spain.
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(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
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
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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. 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
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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
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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
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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: Reproduced: P. 240, 270-271, fig. 7.31; Mentioned: P. 270
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Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 29
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Flood, Finbarr Barry, and Gülru Necipoğlu, eds. A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2017.
page number: Reproduced: p. 987
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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
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Akin, Esra. Muthanna / History, Theory, and Aesthetics. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2020.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 138, fig. 5.8
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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
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