id:			124014
accession number:	1944.499.a
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Velvet Fragment, Khusrau Sees Shirin Bathing, 1550–99. Iran, Kashan, Safavid period (1501-1722). Silk; velvet, cut, pile-warp substitution; overall: 21 x 15.9 cm (8 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.); 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.a

title:				Velvet Fragment, Khusrau Sees Shirin Bathing
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creation date:			1550–99
creation date earliest:		1525
creation date latest:		1600
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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, cut, pile-warp substitution
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Islamic
type:		Velvet
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measurements: Overall: 21 x 15.9 cm (8 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.); Mounted: 44.5 x 26.7 cm (17 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	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

* <em>Woven Treasures of Persian Art</em>. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (April 1-May 23, 1959).

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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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wall description:
These velvet fragments depict an episode from the <em>Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami </em>(1141–1209), in which the lovers Khusrau and Shirin first see each other. A pre-Islamic king of Iran, Khusrau has fallen in love with Shirin after seeing her portrait and is traveling to meet her when he happens across her bathing in a stream. Not yet realizing that she is Shirin, Khusrau is transfixed by the woman’s beauty and covets both her and her magnificent black horse. The horse’s mane is just visible here, and she has placed her crown and tunic atop a branch.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	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: 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 no. 68
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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. <em>Woven from the Soul, Spun from the Heart: Textile Arts of Safavid and Qajar Iran, 16. - 19. Centuries</em>. Washington, DC: Textile Museum, 1987.
	page number: 	109-91 and 65
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	Phillips, Amanda. <em>Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean</em>. 2021.
	page number: 	p. 116, fig. 3.13
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