id:			124013
accession number:	1944.499
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.499
updated:		2025-08-07 20:55:58.368000

Khusrau Surprising Shirin While Bathing, 1550–99. Iran, Kashan, Safavid period (1501-1722). Silk: velvet, pile-warp substitution; mounted: 44.5 x 26.7 cm (17 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1944.499

title:				Khusrau Surprising Shirin While Bathing
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creation date:			1550–99
creation date earliest:		1550
creation date latest:		1599
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Iran, Kashan, Safavid period (1501-1722)
technique:	Silk: velvet, pile-warp substitution
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Islamic
type:		Velvet
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measurements: Mounted: 44.5 x 26.7 cm (17 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Islamic Art
	opening date:   1944-11-03T04:00:00
	<i>Islamic Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 3, 1944-February 2, 1945).

	title:		Arts of Iran (Islamic art rotation)
	opening date:   2018-10-30T04:00:00
	<i>Arts of Iran (Islamic art rotation)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 2018-October 28, 2019).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Woven Treasures of Persian Art</em>. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (April 1-May 23, 1959).', 'opening_date': '1959-04-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Purchased from the Dikran G. Kelekian Collection using income from the J.H. Wade Fund
	date: ?-1944
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1944-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Bier, Carol. Woven from the Soul, Spun from the Heart: Textile Arts of Safavid and Qajar Iran, 16. - 19. Centuries. 1987.
	page number: 	190-191 and 65
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	Underhill, Gertrude. "Fragments of a Khusraw and Shirin Velvet." CMA Bulletin 32 (June 1945): 95-97.
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	Kendrick, F.A. "Persian Stuffs with Figural Subjects." Burlington Magazine 37 (Nov. 1920): 237.
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	Kendrick, A. F., and T. W. Arnold. "Persian Stuffs with Figure-Subjects-I." <em>The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs</em> 37, no. 212 (1920): 237-45.
	page number: 	p. 237
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/861122

	Underhill, Gertrude. "Fragments of a Khusraw and Shīrīn Velvet." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 32, no. 6 (1945): 95-99.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 95-97
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25141215

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 735
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n133

	<em>Woven Treasures of Persian Art; Persian Textiles from the 6th to the 19th Century</em>. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum, 1959.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 38, cat nos. 68 and 69
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 216
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n240

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 216
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n240

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 276
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n296

	Bier, Carol. Woven from the Soul, Spun from the Heart: Textile Arts of Safavid and Qajar Iran, 16th-19th Centuries. Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, 1987.
	page number: 	109-91 and 65
	url:		

	Phillips, Amanda. <em>Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean</em>. 2021.
	page number: 	p. 116, fig. 3.13
	url:		

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