id: 127672
accession number: 1950.353
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Ikat tiraz, 960–980. Yemen, San'a', Zaydi Imam period. Resist-dyed warp (ikat); plain weave with inscription: cotton and gold leaf; overall: 60.3 x 64.5 cm (23 3/4 x 25 3/8 in.); mounted: 67.9 x 74.3 cm (26 3/4 x 29 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1950.353
title: Ikat tiraz
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creation date: 960–980
creation date earliest: 960
creation date latest: 980
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creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Yemen, San'a', Zaydi Imam period
technique: resist-dyed warp (ikat); plain weave with inscription: cotton and gold leaf
department: Textiles
collection: Textiles
type: Textile
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CREATORS
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measurements: Overall: 60.3 x 64.5 cm (23 3/4 x 25 3/8 in.); Mounted: 67.9 x 74.3 cm (26 3/4 x 29 1/4 in.)
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inscription: Kufic inscription, translated as: ". . . [a]l-Dá'i ilá al-Haqq, Commander of the Believers, Yusuf b. Yahya b. al-Nasir li-Din Allah Ahmad, son of the apostle of God, may God bless them all." At the bottom, the word "to God" is inverted.
"Yusuf ibn Yahya" ruled AD 968-998)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Islamic art rotation
opening date: 2013-12-16T05:00:00
Islamic art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 2013-December 15, 2014).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'The Heritage of Islam. Houston, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Washington D.C. (March 10, 1982-September 5, 1983), no. 186, p. 54.', 'opening_date': '1982-03-10T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Gallery 207 textile rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 20, 2002-May 5, 2004).', 'opening_date': '2002-06-20T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Moritz Nahman, Cairo, Egypt
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(Dikran G. Kelekian [1867-1951], 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
id: 127888
Ikat tiraz, 900s. Yemen, San'a, Reign of Rassid Imams. Cotton and gold leaf: resist-dyed warp (ikat); plain weave with inscription; overall: 41.7 x 30 cm (16 7/16 x 11 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1950.524
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CITATIONS
Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire, Etienne Combe, Jean Sauvaget, and Gaston Wiet. Répertoire chronologique d'épigraphie arabe. Le Caire: Impr. de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1931.
page number: vol. IV, p. 174, no. 1544
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Wiet, Gaston. 1935. “Tissus Et Tapisseries Du Musée Arabe Du Caire.” Syria 16 (3): 278–90.
page number: p. 287
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Lamm, C. J. Cotton in Medieval Textiles of the Near East. Paris: P. Geuthner, 1937.
page number: p. 146
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Textile Museum (Washington, D.C.), and Ernst Kühnel. Catalogue of Dated Tiraz Fabrics: Umayyad, Abbasid, Fatimid. Washington: National Pub. Co, 1952.
page number: p. 90
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Golombek, Lisa and Veronica Gervers. "Tiraz Fabrics in the Royal Ontario Museum." In Burnham, Harold B., and Veronika Gervers. Studies in Textile History: In Memory of Harold B. Burnham. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1977.
page number: p. 92-3, fig. 3
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Edwards, Holly. Patterns and Precision, the Arts and Sciences of Islam. [Washington, D.C.]: National Committee to Honor the Fourteenth Centennial of Islam, 1982.
page number: p. 54, no. 186
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Cornu, Georgette, Odile Valansot, and Hélène Meyer. Tissus islamiques de la collection Pfister. Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, 1992.
page number: p. 65
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Balfour-Paul, Jenny. "Islamic Art: Fabrics, before c. 1250: Yemen." In Turner, J. S. The Dictionary of Art. New York: Grove, 1996.
page number: p. 438-9
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Baginski, Alisa and Orit Shamir. “The Earliest Ikat.” HALI; the international journal of Oriental carpets and textiles. [London] Issue 95, November 1997.
page number: p. 86-87
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Bier, Carol. "A Calligrapher's Art: Inscribed Cotton Ikat from Yemen" (2001)
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url: http://works.bepress.com/carol_bier/9/
Bier, Carol. “Patterns in Time and Space: Technologies of Transfer and the Cultural Transmission of Mathematical Knowledge Across the Indian Ocean.” Ars Orientalis 34 (2004):
page number: p. 172–94
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Bier, Carol. "Inscribed Cotton Ikat from Yemen in the Tenth Century CE." in International Shibori Symposium, Feng Zhao, Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada, and Edith Cheung. Resist Dye on the Silk Road: Shibori, Clamp Resist and Ikat. Hangzhou: China National Silk Museum, 2014.
page number: p. 32-40
url: http://works.bepress.com/carol_bier/21/
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: Reproduced: P. 82, 122-123, fig. 3.41; Mentioned: P. 123, 215
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Weinstein, Laura, and Emine Fetvacı. Ink, Silk & Gold: Islamic Art from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 2015.
page number: p. 36, no. 10
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McWilliams, Mary, and Jochen A. Sokoly. Social Fabrics: Inscribed Textiles from Medieval Egyptian Tombs. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Art Museums, 2021.
page number: similar objects. cat. nos. 11 and 12, p. 82-85
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