id: 125977
accession number: 1948.205
share license status: CC0
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updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:08.735000
Tent panel of a dragon slayer, 1550–99. Iran, Yazd[?], reign of Shah Tahmasp, Safavid period (1501-1736). Velvet, cut, voided, brocaded, and pile-warp substitution: silk and gilt-metal strips; overall: 71.1 x 55.6 cm (28 x 21 7/8 in.); mounted: 81.3 x 66 cm (32 x 26 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1948.205
title: Tent panel of a dragon slayer
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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, Yazd[?], reign of Shah Tahmasp, Safavid period (1501-1736)
technique: velvet, cut, voided, brocaded, and pile-warp substitution: silk and gilt-metal strips
department: Textiles
collection: T - Islamic
type: Velvet
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measurements: Overall: 71.1 x 55.6 cm (28 x 21 7/8 in.); Mounted: 81.3 x 66 cm (32 x 26 in.)
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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: Islamic Art
opening date: 1970-06-15T04:00:00
Islamic Art. Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN (organizer) (June 15-October 1, 1970).
title: Islamic art rotation
opening date: 2012-12-03T05:00:00
Islamic art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 3, 2012-December 9, 2013).
title: Muhammad Shah's Royal Persian Tent
opening date: 2015-07-13T04:00:00
Muhammad Shah's Royal Persian Tent. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13, 2015-August 23, 2016).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'International Exhibition of Persian Art. Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (January 7-March 7, 1931).', 'opening_date': '1931-01-07T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Islamic Art Across the World. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN (June 18-October 1, 1970).', 'opening_date': '1970-06-18T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
(Adolph Loewi [1888-1977], Los Angeles, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?-1948
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1948-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), and Arnold Talbot Wilson. Persian art: an illustrated souvenir of the exhibition of Persian art at Burlington house, London, 1931. [London]: Printed for the Executive Committee of the exhibition by Hudson & Kearns Ltd, 1931.
page number: p. 75, no. 182
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Pope, Arthur Upham, Phyllis Ackerman, and Theodore Bestermann. A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present. London: Oxford University Press, 1938.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pl. 1024
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Los Angeles County Museum. 2000 Years of Silk Weaving: An Exhibition Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Museum in Collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York: E. Weyhe, 1944.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 33, no. 245, pl. 59
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Shepherd, Dorothy G. "A Persian Velvet of the Shāh Ṭahmāsp Period." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 36, no. 4 (1949): 46-53.
page number: p. 46-53
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25141546.
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. 734
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. 216
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n240
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. 216
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n240
Bowie, Theodore Robert. Islamic Art Across the World; An Exhibition. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Art Museum, 1970.
page number: no. 325
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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. 273
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n293
Ball, Victoria Kloss. Architecture and Interior Design. New York: Wiley, 1980.
page number: p. 261, fig. 6.49
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Mackie, Louise W. Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 354-355, fig. 9.13
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IMAGES
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