id: 125977 accession number: 1948.205 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1948.205 updated: 2025-04-02 13:30:35.316000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1550–99 creation date earliest: 1550 creation date latest: 1599 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- 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 find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 71.1 x 55.6 cm (28 x 21 7/8 in.); Mounted: 81.3 x 66 cm (32 x 26 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 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). --- 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'} --- PROVENANCE (Adolph Loewi [1888-1977], Los Angeles, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1948 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1948- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: --- 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