id:			119004
accession number:	1940.1193
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.1193
updated:		2024-08-08 15:13:32.717000

Silk Fragment, 1350–99. Italy, second half of 14th century. Silk and gold thread; lampas weave; overall: 20.3 x 40.6 cm (8 x 16 in.); mounted: 30.5 x 50.8 cm (12 x 20 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1940.1193

title:				Silk Fragment
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creation date:			1350–99
creation date earliest:		1350
creation date latest:		1399
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creditline:			Dudley P. Allen Fund
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culture:	Italy, second half of 14th century
technique:	Silk and gold thread; lampas weave
department:	Textiles
collection:	Textiles
type:		Textile
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measurements: Overall: 20.3 x 40.6 cm (8 x 16 in.); Mounted: 30.5 x 50.8 cm (12 x 20 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).

	title:		William Morris: Designing an Earthly Paradise
	opening date:   2017-10-24T04:00:00
	<i>William Morris: Designing an Earthly Paradise</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24, 2017-January 14, 2019).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Adolph Loewi [1888-1977], Los Angeles, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1940
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1940–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Underhill, Gertrude. "Two Fourteenth-Century Italian Silks." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 28, no. 9 (1941): 138-43.
	page number: 	p. 138-39
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25140953

	Neils, Jenifer. "The Twain Shall Meet." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 72, no. 6 (1985): 326-59.
	page number: 	no. 72
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25159914.

	Wardwell, Anne E. "Flight of the Phoenix: Crosscurrents in Late Thirteenth- to Fourteenth-Century Silk Patterns and Motifs." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 74, no. 1 (1987): 2-35.
	page number: 	p. 24-25, fig. 31
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25159970

	Korkow, Cory. "Textiles." In <em>William Morris: Designing an Earthly Paradise.</em> Cory Korkow and Victoria Hepburn, 8-23. Cleveland, Ohio : Cleveland Museum of Art, 2017 .
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 19; reproduced: p. 20, fig. 14.
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IMAGES

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