id:			127890
accession number:	1950.526
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.526
updated:		2024-04-18 11:02:05.790000

Fragment with jewel-like silk, 800s. Iraq, probably Baghdad. Silk: plain weave, brocaded; overall: 17.1 x 12.7 cm (6 3/4 x 5 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1950.526

title:				Fragment with jewel-like silk
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creation date:			800s
creation date earliest:		800
creation date latest:		899
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	Iraq, probably Baghdad
technique:	Silk: plain weave, brocaded
department:	Textiles
collection:	Textiles
type:		Textile
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measurements: Overall: 17.1 x 12.7 cm (6 3/4 x 5 in.)
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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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CITATIONS

	Kühnel, Ernst. "Abbasid Silks of the Ninth Century." <em>Ars Orientalis</em> 2 (1957): 367-71.
	page number: 	pp. 367-71, fig. 12
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/4629042.

	Wilckens, Leonie von. <em>Die textilen Künste: von der Spätantike bis um 1500</em>. München: C.H. Beck, 1991.
	page number: 	p. 84, no. 86
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	Baker, Patricia L. <em>Islamic Textiles</em>. London: British Museum Press, 1995.
	page number: 	pp. 34-35
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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. 70, fig. 2.31; Mentioned: P. 70, 215
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