id: 120469
accession number: 1941.292
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Fragment with star pattern and griffins, 950–1050. Iraq or Iran, Buyid period. Silk: plain weave variation with supplementary weft; overall: 40.3 x 30.5 cm (15 7/8 x 12 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1941.292
title: Fragment with star pattern and griffins
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creation date: 950–1050
creation date earliest: 950
creation date latest: 1050
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creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Iraq or Iran, Buyid period
technique: silk: plain weave variation with supplementary weft
department: Textiles
collection: T - Islamic
type: Textile
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measurements: Overall: 40.3 x 30.5 cm (15 7/8 x 12 in.)
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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: 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: The Glory of Byzantium
opening date: 1997-03-03T00:00:00
The Glory of Byzantium. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3-July 6, 1997).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Early Christian and Byzantine Art. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD (April 25-June 22, 1947).', 'opening_date': '1947-04-25T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
(Mrs. Paul [Marguerite] Mallon [d. 1977], Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?–1941
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1941–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Underhill, Gertrude. "A Tenth-Century Byzantine Silk from Antioch." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 29, no. 1 (1942): 6-7.
page number: pp. 6–7
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25140967
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: no. 20, pl. 7
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Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.), and Dorothy Eugenia Miner. Early Christian and Byzantine Art, An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, April 25-June 22 [1947]. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1947.
page number: no. 771
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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: p. 113, no. 114
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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. 686
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n126
Evans, Helen C., and William D. Wixom. The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843-1261. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 412
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Mackie, Louise W. Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century. Cleveland, OH; New Haven, CT: The Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015.
page number: Reproduced: p. 128, fig. 4.6, 138; Mentioned: p. 136
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