id:			118341
accession number:	1939.41
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.41
updated:		2025-02-09 00:27:51.464000

Silk Fragments, 1350–1399. Italy, Lucchese, second half of 14th century. Lampas weave, brocaded; silk and gold thread; overall: 35.7 x 15 cm (14 1/16 x 5 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1939.41

title:				Silk Fragments
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creation date:			1350–1399
creation date earliest:		1350
creation date latest:		1399
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Italy, Lucchese, second half of 14th century
technique:	lampas weave, brocaded; silk and gold thread
department:	Textiles
collection:	Textiles
type:		Textile
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measurements: Overall: 35.7 x 15 cm (14 1/16 x 5 7/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Twain Shall Meet
	opening date:   1985-10-30T05:00:00
	<i>The Twain Shall Meet</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	H. A. Elsberg Collection.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Underhill, Gertrude. "Textiles from the H. A. Elsberg Collection." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>26, no. 9. (November 1939): 143-146.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 145
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25138043

	Wardwell, A. (1987). Flight of the Phoenix: Crosscurrents in Late Thirteenth- to Fourteenth-Century Silk Patterns and Motifs. The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 74(1), 2-35.
	page number: 	p. 2-35, fig. 29
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159970

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IMAGES

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