id: 123707 accession number: 1944.239 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.239 updated: 2025-05-08 11:22:00.221000 Fragment with falconer and attendant in animated lattice, from a robe, mid-1500s. Iran, Kashan, Safavid period (1501–1722). Silk: velvet, brocaded, pile-warp substitution; gilt-metal thread; overall: 79.4 x 66.7 cm (31 1/4 x 26 1/4 in.); mounted: 89.5 x 74.9 cm (35 1/4 x 29 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1944.239 title: Fragment with falconer and attendant in animated lattice, from a robe title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: mid-1500s creation date earliest: 1525 creation date latest: 1575 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Iran, Kashan, Safavid period (1501–1722) technique: Silk: velvet, brocaded, pile-warp substitution; gilt-metal thread department: Textiles collection: T - Islamic type: Velvet find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 79.4 x 66.7 cm (31 1/4 x 26 1/4 in.); Mounted: 89.5 x 74.9 cm (35 1/4 x 29 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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: For Modern America from the Ancient Near East opening date: 1948-02-24T05:00:00 For Modern America from the Ancient Near East. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-March 21, 1948). title: 35th Anniversary Exhibition opening date: 1951-06-20T04:00:00 35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951). title: Lost Cities opening date: 1960-03-20T05:00:00 Lost Cities. Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (organizer) (March 20-May 20, 1960). title: Arts of Islam opening date: 1976-04-08T05:00:00 Arts of Islam. Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (April 8-July 4, 1976). title: Symposium on Falconry opening date: 1976-12-10T05:00:00 Symposium on Falconry. Presidential Court Palace, Sheikh Zayed al-Nihayan, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (organizer) (December 10-18, 1976). title: Hunt for Paradise: Court Arts of Iran, 1501-1576 opening date: 2003-10-16T00:00:00 Hunt for Paradise: Court Arts of Iran, 1501-1576. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (October 16, 2003-January 18, 2004); Palazzo Reale, Milano, Italy (March 10-June 27, 2004). 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Lost Cities. Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (March 20-May 20, 1960).', 'opening_date': '1960-03-20T00:00:00'} * {'description': "7000 Ans d'Art en Iran. Petit Palais, Paris, France (October 1961-January 1962).", 'opening_date': '1961-10-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The Arts of Islam. The Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, London, UK (April 8-July 4, 1976).', 'opening_date': '1976-04-08T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Falconry [in Islamic Art], held in connection with the International Symposium of Falconry. Abu Dhabi (December 12-?, 1976).', 'opening_date': '2012-12-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (Dikran G. Kelekian [1867-1951], Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1944 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1944- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Hennezel, Henri d'. Le décor des soieries dʹart, anciennes et modernes: documents originaux en couleurs du Musée historique des tissus de Lyon. Paris: Éditions Nilsson, 1900. page number: Reproduced: pl. 13 url: Reath, Nancy Andrews, and Eleanor B. Sachs. Persian Textiles and Their Technique from the Sixth to the Eighteenth Centuries, Including a System for General Textile Classification. New Haven: Pub. for Pennsylvania Museum of Art by Yale University Press, 1937. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 122, pl. 80 url: Pope, Arthur Upham, Phyllis Ackerman, and Theodore Bestermann. A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present. London: Oxford University Press, 1938. page number: Vol. VI, Pl. 1019 url: Underhill, Gertrude. “A Shah Tahmasp Velvet.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 31, no. 9, 1944, pp. 157–158. page number: Mentioned: pp. 157-158 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25141157 Underhill, Gertrude. “Fragments of a Khusraw and Shīrīn Velvet.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 32, no. 6, 1945, pp. 95–99. page number: Mentioned: p. 95 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141215 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: Reproduced: p. 120, pl. 136 url: 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. 732 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n133 Woven Treasures of Persian Art; Persian Textiles from the 6th to the 19th Century. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum, 1959. page number: Mentioned: pp. 34-35, cat. no. 53 url: Ghirshman, Roman. Sept mille ans d'art en Iran: Petit Palais, Octobre 1961-Janvier 1962. Paris: Association francaise d’action artistique, 1961. page number: p. 201, no. 1130 url: 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. 217 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n241 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. 217 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n241 Jones, Dalu and George Michell. The Arts of Islam: Hayward Gallery, 8 April-4 July 1976. [London]: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1976. page number: p. 105, no. 72 url: 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. 276 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n296 Donley, Gregory, "Three New Curators", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 39 no. 04, April 1999 page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 6-7 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1999-04/page/6 Thompson, Jon, and Sheila R. Canby. Hunt for Paradise: Court Arts of Safavid Iran, 1501-1576. Milan: Skira; London: Thames & Hudson, 2003. page number: pp. 288-289, cat. no. 12, 14 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 364 url: Highet, Juliet. "Silks from Islamic Lands." The Asian Art Newspaper: Monthly for Collectors, Dealers, Museums and Galleries 17, issue 5 (March 2014). page number: Reproduced: p. 16 url: Weinstein, Laura, and Emine Fetvacı. Ink, Silk & Gold: Islamic Art from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: MFA Publications, 2015. page number: p. 101, no. 63 url: 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: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 349-351, fig. 9.9 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.239/1944.239_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.239/1944.239_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.239/1944.239_full.tif