id:			127872
accession number:	1950.510
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.510
updated:		2024-04-13 11:22:52.780000

Cap, 1300s. Syria or Egypt, Mamluk Dynasty (1250–1517). Lampas, quilted: silk; overall: 11.4 x 16.5 x 16.5 cm (4 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1950.510

title:				Cap
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creation date:			1300s
creation date earliest:		1300
creation date latest:		1399
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	Syria or Egypt, Mamluk Dynasty (1250–1517)
technique:	lampas, quilted: silk
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Islamic
type:		Textile
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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 11.4 x 16.5 x 16.5 cm (4 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	1) Glory to our Lord, the Sultan
2) Glory to our Lord, the Sultan al-Malik, al-Nasir
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries
	opening date:   1991-11-26T05:00:00
	<i>Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 26-June 6, 1991).

	title:		Luxuriance: Silks from Islamic Lands, 1250-1900
	opening date:   2013-05-14T04:00:00
	<i>Luxuriance: Silks from Islamic Lands, 1250-1900</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 14, 2013-June 23, 2014).

	title:		Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa
	opening date:   2019-01-24T05:00:00
	<i>Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa</i>. National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC (October 15, 2020-July 30, 2021).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Renaissance of Islam: Art of the Mamluks</em>. Smithsonian Institution, Washington; Minneapolis; New York; Cincinnati; Detroit; Sacramento; San Diego; Phoenix; Hartford (May 1981-May 1983).', 'opening_date': '1981-05-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Dr. Emil Delmar [1876–1959], Budapest, Hungary and 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

	Atil, Esin. Renaissance of Islam: Art of the Mamluks, (Washington D.C., 1981), no. 117, p. 234.
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	Wardwell, Anne E. "Flight of the Phoenix: Crosscurrents in Late Thirteenth- to Fourtheenth-Century Silk Patterns and Motifs," CMA Bulletin 74 (Jan. 1987) 20 - 21, illus. p. 21.
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	Wardwell, Anne E. "Flight of the Phoenix: Crosscurrents in Late Thirteenth- to Fourteenth-Century Silk Patterns and Motifs." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 74, no. 1 (1987): 2-35. Accessed February 16, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159970.
	page number: 	fig. 25, p. 21
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159970

	de Moor A., Cäcilia Fluck and Petra Linscheid. <em>Excavating, Analysing, Reconstructing: Textiles of the 1st Millennium AD from Egypt and Neighbouring Countries : Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Research Group 'Textiles from the Nile Valley', Antwerp, 27-29 November 2015.</em> Tielt, Belgium: Lannoo, 2017.
	page number: 	Mentionwed: p. 168, note 3
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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. 262, fig. 7.21; Mentioned: P. 263
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	Berzock, Kathleen Bickford. <em>Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange Across Medieval Saharan Africa</em>. Evanston, IL: Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University: in association with Princeton University Press, 2019.
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	Mühlemann, Corinne. <em>Complex Weaves: Technique, Text, and Cultural History of Striped Silks.</em> Affalterbach: Didymos-Verlag, 2023.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 14, fig. 3.1, p. 16, p. 85, p. 113-116, p. 119; Mentioned and reproduced: p. 196-197, no. 3, figs. 3.1-3.4
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