id:			123061
accession number:	1943.313
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.313
updated:		2022-10-28 21:53:20.076000

Brocaded velvet with chintamani design, late 1400s. Turkey, Bursa. Velvet, brocaded: silk and silver-metal thread; overall: 81.3 x 28.6 cm (32 x 11 1/4 in.); mounted: 91.4 x 39.4 cm (36 x 15 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Adolph Loewi 1943.313

title:				Brocaded velvet with chintamani design
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creation date:			late 1400s
creation date earliest:		1450
creation date latest:		1499
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creditline:			Gift of Adolph Loewi
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culture:	Turkey, Bursa
technique:	velvet, brocaded: silk and silver-metal thread
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Islamic
type:		Velvet
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measurements: Overall: 81.3 x 28.6 cm (32 x 11 1/4 in.); Mounted: 91.4 x 39.4 cm (36 x 15 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Luxuriance: Silks from Islamic Lands, 1250-1900
	opening date:   2013-05-14T04:00:00
	<i>Luxuriance: Silks from Islamic Lands, 1250-1900</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 14, 2013-June 23, 2014).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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wall description: 
This early Ottoman brocaded velvet was woven in an imperial workshop in the prosperous city of Bursa, the silk capital and major commercial center of the Ottoman Empire. It has exceptionally rich crimson silk pile, almost twice as dense as later monochrome velvets. The brocaded pattern of three balls and paired wavy bands is known as <em>chintamani</em>, derived from the Sanskrit word for a popular Buddhist motif, “the three jewels,” shown surrounded by flames or foliage in Buddhist art across Asia. Based on the high frequency of its use in art for the Islamic court of the Ottoman Turks, it appears to have been a favored motif and possibly even an unofficial imperial emblem.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Mackie, Louise W. <em>Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century</em>. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 291, fig. 8.10
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	Mackie, Louise W. "Pomp and Grace: Ottoman Velvets of the Fifteenth Century." In Peter, Michael, and Sophie Desrosiers. <em>Velvets of the Fifteenth Century</em>. 2020, 175.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced; pp. 174-175, fig. 4.
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	Jaffer, Amin, Jasper Gaunt, and Émilie Foyer. Treasures of the Al Thani Collection at the Hôtel De La Marine. 2021.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 310
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