id: 125342 accession number: 1947.294 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.294 updated: 2022-01-12 10:00:59.095000 Chasuble Fragment with Realistic Animals, c. 1420. Italy. Silk, gold thread; lampas weave; overall: 115.6 x 33.7 cm (45 1/2 x 13 1/4 in.); mounted: 120.7 x 36.8 cm (47 1/2 x 14 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1947.294 title: Chasuble Fragment with Realistic Animals title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1420 creation date earliest: 1415 creation date latest: 1425 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy technique: Silk, gold thread; lampas weave department: Textiles collection: T - Ecclesiastical type: Textile find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 115.6 x 33.7 cm (45 1/2 x 13 1/4 in.); Mounted: 120.7 x 36.8 cm (47 1/2 x 14 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Gothic Art 1360-1440 opening date: 1963-08-06T04:00:00 Gothic Art 1360-1440. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 6-September 15, 1963). title: Renaissance Textiles (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115 opening date: 2012-11-14T05:00:00 Renaissance Textiles (Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 14, 2012-December 10, 2013). title: Liturgical Textiles and Manuscripts from Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy (Manuscript and Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115 opening date: 2018-12-05T05:00:00 Liturgical Textiles and Manuscripts from Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy (Manuscript and Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 5, 2018-December 2, 2019). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Aspects of Late Medieval Art, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH (October 31-November 22, 1958).
Gallery 216 installation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 1991). --- PROVENANCE (Dikran G. Kelekian, New York). date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1947- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Around 1400 an emerging interest in the bucolic world of nature encouraged a new trend among textile designers, as seen in the lions, hawks, dogs, and ducks on this luxury silk fragment. The continual influence of Chinese asymmetry, however, is evident in the prominent undulating palmette trees, enlarged from sinuous vines frequently seen in Italian silks and velvets from this period. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Shepherd, Dorothy G. "A Fifteenth-Century Italian Textile." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 35, no. 3 (1948): 46-44. page number: p. 46-48 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25141449. 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. 139, no. 124 url: Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts. Aspects of Late Mediaeval Art; The Mediaeval Conference, the Ohio State University. 1958. page number: no. 5 (under textiles) url: Bunt, Cyril G. E. Venetian Fabrics. Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, 1959. page number: figs. 5-6 url: "Gothic Art 1360-1440." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 7 (1963): 174-215. page number: no. 102, pp. 190, 215 url: Accessed July 18, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/25151960. Müller, Kathrin. Musterhaft naturgetreu: Tiere in Seiden, Zeichnungen und Tapisserien des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2020. page number: Reproduced: P. 166, farabb. 25 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.294/1947.294_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.294/1947.294_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.294/1947.294_full.tif