id:			127460
accession number:	1950.146
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.146
updated:		2024-03-26 01:58:14.732000

Fragment with Lion Strangler from a Dalmatic of Saint Bernard Calvo, 1200–1243. Spain, Almeria. Silk and gold thread: lampas, taqueté, and plain-weave variant; overall: 43.8 x 39.7 cm (17 1/4 x 15 5/8 in.); mounted: 53 x 49.8 cm (20 7/8 x 19 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1950.146

title:				Fragment with Lion Strangler from a Dalmatic of Saint Bernard Calvo
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creation date:			1200–1243
creation date earliest:		1200
creation date latest:		1243
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Spain, Almeria
technique:	Silk and gold thread: lampas, taqueté, and plain-weave variant
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Islamic
type:		Textile
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measurements: Overall: 43.8 x 39.7 cm (17 1/4 x 15 5/8 in.); Mounted: 53 x 49.8 cm (20 7/8 x 19 5/8 in.)
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	inscription:	the inscription (incorrectly written) appears to read "al-'amir" (command, i.e. authority) [alternately retrograde and vice versa].
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		35th Anniversary Exhibition
	opening date:   1951-06-20T04:00:00
	<i>35th Anniversary Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951).

	title:		Islamic Gallery 207 Rotation
	opening date:   2001-06-19T04:00:00
	<i>Islamic Gallery 207 Rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 19, 2001-June 3, 2002).

	title:		Islamic art rotation
	opening date:   2013-12-16T05:00:00
	<i>Islamic art rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 2013-December 15, 2014).

	title:		Al-Andalus: Art from Islamic Spain (Islamic art rotation)
	opening date:   2019-10-29T04:00:00
	<i>Al-Andalus: Art from Islamic Spain (Islamic art rotation)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 29, 2019-October 25, 2020).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Gallery 207 textile rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 19, 2001-June 3, 2002).', 'opening_date': '2001-06-19T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	from tomb of St. Bernard Calvo, Bishop of Vich, who died in 1243; this fragment from one of vestments found in tomb at the Cathedral of Vich when it was opened at the end of the 19th century
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	(Paul O. Berliz, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1950
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1950-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Shepherd, Dorothy G. "A Twelfth-Century Hispano-Islamic Silk." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 38, no. 3 (1951): 59-62.
	page number: 	p. 59-62
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25141697.

	Shepherd, Dorothy G. "A Dated Hispano-Islamic Silk." <em>Ars Orientalis</em> 2 (1957): 373-82.
	page number: 	p. 373-82
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/4629043.

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 119
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n35

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 218
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n242

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 218
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n242

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 275
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n295

	Brett, Michael, and Werner Forman. The Moors: Islam in the West. London: Orbis Pub, 1980.
	page number: 	p. 21
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	Ettinghausen, Richard, Oleg Grabar, and Sheila Blair. <em>The art and architecture of Islam, 650-1250</em>. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England; New York: Penguin Books, 1987.
	page number: 	p. 161, fig. 140
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	Mackie, Louise W. <em>Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century</em>. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P 175, fig. 5.6; Mentioned: P. 174, 177
	url:		

	Akin, Esra. <em>Muthanna / History, Theory, and Aesthetics</em>. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2020.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 139, fig. 5.9
	url:		

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