id: 125977 accession number: 1948.205 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1948.205 updated: 2020-05-19 09:04:15.884000 Tent panel of a dragon slayer, 1550-1599. Iran, Kashan, Safavid period. Velvet, cut, voided, brocaded, and pile-warp substitution: silk and gilt-metal strips; overall: 69.9 x 54.6 cm (27 1/2 x 21 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1948.205 title: Tent panel of a dragon slayer title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1550-1599 creation date earliest: 1550 creation date latest: 1599 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Iran, Kashan, Safavid period technique: velvet, cut, voided, brocaded, and pile-warp substitution: silk and gilt-metal strips department: Textiles collection: T - Islamic type: Velvet find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 69.9 x 54.6 cm (27 1/2 x 21 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * International Exhibition of Persian Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (January 7-March 7, 1931)
Islamic Art Across the World. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN (June 18-October 1, 1970). --- PROVENANCE (Adolph Loewi, Los Angeles). date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This velvet medallion decorated the interior of an imperial tent, possibly donated by Shah Tahmasp to an Ottoman Turkish sultan. Captured after the Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1683, the medallion was claimed as war booty by the European commander-in-chief Prince Sanguszko of Poland by whose name this and other panels are known. Here, a dragon slayer dressed in 16th-century court attire is poised to hurl a boulder at a snarling dragon in a landscape with blossoming fruit trees and perched fowl. Originally the ivory ground was covered with costly gilt-metal strips, which may have been removed for their monetary value. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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 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 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.205/1948.205_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.205/1948.205_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.205/1948.205_full.tif