id:			127890
accession number:	1950.526
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.526
updated:		2023-03-08 14:59:16.656000

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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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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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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digital description:
This fragment is brocaded in a jewel-toned silks: red, rose, turquoise, salmon pink, pale pink, golden tan, green, dark blue, and dark brown. Flat strips of gold foil were wound on tan silk strands to create gold thread adding to the luxuriousness of the brocade.

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RELATED WORKS

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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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