id:			127878
accession number:	1950.514
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.514
updated:		2024-03-26 01:58:16.768000

Samite with roundels of rosettes, 700s-800s. Iran. Samite: silk; overall: 17.7 x 17.7 cm (6 15/16 x 6 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1950.514

title:				Samite with roundels of rosettes
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creation date:			700s-800s
creation date earliest:		700
creation date latest:		899
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	Iran
technique:	samite: silk
department:	Textiles
collection:	Textiles
type:		Textile
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measurements: Overall: 17.7 x 17.7 cm (6 15/16 x 6 15/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian & Chinese Textiles from the Cleveland and Metropolitan Museums of Art
	opening date:   1997-10-19T00:00:00
	<i>When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian & Chinese Textiles from the Cleveland and Metropolitan Museums of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 26, 1997-January 4, 1998); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 26, 1997-January 4, 1998); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (March 2-May 17, 1998); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (March 2-May 17, 1998).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	found in Egypt
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	(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

	Müller-Christensen, Sigrid, Mechthild Flury-Lemberg, and Karen Stolleis. Documenta textilia: Festschrift für Sigrid Müller-Christensen. München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1981.
	page number: 	p.120
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	Shepherd, Dorothy G. 1981. “Zandaniji Revisited.” <em>Documenta Textilia / Hrsg. Von Mechthild Flury-Lemberg Und Karen Stolleis</em> 105-122.
	page number: 	p. 105-122
	url:		https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/888207698

	Watt, James C. Y., Anne E. Wardwell, and Morris Rossabi. <em>When silk was gold: Central Asian and Chinese textiles</em>. 1997.
	page number: 	figure 2, p. 22, p. 33
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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. 55, fig. 2.16; Mentioned: P. 55
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