id:			125230
accession number:	1947.193
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.193
updated:		2024-08-08 15:14:01.701000

Silk Sleeve Decoration with Hunters, 700s. Egypt or Syria, Umayyad period (661–750) or Abbasid period (750–1258). Silk: complementary weft-faced twill with inner warps (samit); overall: 28.9 x 20.3 cm (11 3/8 x 8 in.); mounted: 37.8 x 29.2 cm (14 7/8 x 11 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1947.193

title:				Silk Sleeve Decoration with Hunters
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creation date:			700s
creation date earliest:		700
creation date latest:		799
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Egypt or Syria, Umayyad period (661–750) or Abbasid period (750–1258)
technique:	Silk: complementary weft-faced twill with inner warps (samit)
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Islamic
type:		Textile
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measurements: Overall: 28.9 x 20.3 cm (11 3/8 x 8 in.); Mounted: 37.8 x 29.2 cm (14 7/8 x 11 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries
	opening date:   1991-11-26T05:00:00
	<i>Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 26-June 6, 1991).

	title:		Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation
	opening date:   2001-11-02T05:00:00
	<i>Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 2, 2001-October 15, 2002).

	title:		Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106
	opening date:   2013-05-07T04:00:00
	<i>Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 20, 2013-March 17, 2014).

	title:		Art of the Islamic World (Islamic art rotation)
	opening date:   2021-05-21T04:00:00
	<i>Art of the Islamic World (Islamic art rotation)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (May 21, 2021-May 31, 2022).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Dikran G. Kelekian [1867-1951], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1947
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1947-
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CITATIONS

	Shepherd, Dorothy. "A Coptic Silk." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 34, no. 9 (1947): 216-37.
	page number: 	p. 236-37
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25141411

	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: 	p. 91, no. 54
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	Akin, Esra. <em>Muthanna / History, Theory, and Aesthetics</em>. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2020.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 114, fig. 4.3
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