id: 123707 accession number: 1944.239 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.239 updated: 2019-06-27 08:04:53.974000 Brocaded velvet with falconer and attendant in animated lattice, from a robe, mid 1500s. Iran, Kashan, Safavid period. Velvet, brocaded and pile-warp substitution: silk and gilt-metal thread; overall: 79.4 x 66.7 cm (31 1/4 x 26 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1944.239 title: Brocaded velvet 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 technique: velvet, brocaded and pile-warp substitution: silk and 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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: 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 (organizer) (October 16, 2003-January 18, 2004); Palazzo Reale (March 10-June 27, 2004). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Cleveland Museum of Art, "2000 Years of Silk Weaving" [March 18-April 16, 1944]; Detroit Institute of Arts [May 12-June 4, 1944]; Los Angeles County Museum [Jan. 9-Feb. 29, 1944]
Denver Art Museum, "Lost Cities" [March 20-May 20, 1960]
Paris, Petit Palais, "7000 Ans d'Art en Iran" [Oct. 1961-Jan. 1962]
London, Hayward Gallery, "The Arts of Islam," The Arts Council of Great Britain [April 8-July 4, 1976]
Abu Dhabi, Falconry [in Islamic Art], held in connection with the International Symposium of Falconry [Dec. 12-, 1976] no catalogue
Asia Society Gallery, New York City (10/162003 - 1/18/2004) and the Palazzo Reale, Milan (3/3/2004 - 6/27/2004): "Hunt for Paradise: Court Arts of Iran, 1501-1576," exh. cat. no. 12.14, p. 288-289.

CMA, "Luxuriance, Silks from Islamic Lands, 1250-1900" (Gallery 234), June 22, 2013 - June 23, 2014. --- PROVENANCE (Dikran G. Kelekian, Paris). date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This signature Safavid velvet displaying a falconry scene is celebrated for its refined beauty, meticulous draftsmanship, and exemplary technique with eight colors of velvet pile. A falconer and attendant flank a tall blossoming plant on a golden ground of lobed medallions. Animated foliate vines display leaves bearing lion’s masks and dragons coiled around larger leaves on the rich crimson velvet ground. Instead of two or three colors of velvet pile, ingenious Iranian weavers wove velvets with as many as 14 colors of velvet pile, the most colorful velvets ever woven. They substituted one color of pile warp with another one. This created fringes of the cut pile warps on the back, called pile-warp substitution. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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 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 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 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: --- 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