id:			127897
accession number:	1950.533
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.533
updated:		2024-03-26 01:58:16.866000

Embroidered fragment with bird among vines, 1100s. Iraq, Baghdad, Seljuq period. Plain weave: silk warp and cotton weft (mulham); embroidery, couched and split stitches: silk and metallic thread; overall: 7.3 x 21.6 cm (2 7/8 x 8 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1950.533

title:				Embroidered fragment with bird among vines
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creation date:			1100s
creation date earliest:		1100
creation date latest:		1199
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	Iraq, Baghdad, Seljuq period
technique:	plain weave: silk warp and cotton weft (mulham); embroidery, couched and split stitches: silk and metallic thread
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Islamic
type:		Textile
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measurements: Overall: 7.3 x 21.6 cm (2 7/8 x 8 1/2 in.)
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PROVENANCE

	(Dr. Emil Delmar, Budapest and New York).
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Shepherd, Dorothy G. “Two Islamic Embroideries in Gold on ‘Mulham.’” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 40, no. 8 (1953).
	page number: 	p. 189–191
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25141905.

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 689
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n126

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 214
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n238

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 214
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n238

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 270
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n290

	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.160, fig. 4.32; Mentioned: P. 158
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