id:			127905
accession number:	1950.541
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.541
updated:		2025-03-06 12:16:03.779000

Roundel with seated prince, 1000s. Egypt, Fatimid period. Plain weave with inwoven tapestry weave: linen, silk, and gold filé; overall: 16.5 x 17.2 cm (6 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1950.541

title:				Roundel with seated prince
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creation date:			1000s
creation date earliest:		1000
creation date latest:		1099
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	Egypt, Fatimid period
technique:	plain weave with inwoven tapestry weave: linen, silk, and gold filé
department:	Textiles
collection:	Textiles
type:		Textile
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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 16.5 x 17.2 cm (6 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.)
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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).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>2000 Years of Tapestry Weaving</em>. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT (December 7, 1951-January 27, 1952); Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (February 27-March 25, 1952).', 'opening_date': '1952-02-27T00:00:00'}

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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

	Wiet, Gaston. <em>L'Exposition persane de 1931</em>. Le Caire: Impr. de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1933.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 67, no. XII, pl. XXV
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	Wadsworth Atheneum, Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, and Charles Crehore Cunningham. <em>2000 Years of Tapestry Weaving: A Loan Exhibition: Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Dec. 7, 1951 to Jan. 27, 1952; the Baltimore Museum of Art, Feb. 27, 1952 to Mar. 25, 1952</em>. Hartford, CT: Wardsworth Atheneum], 1951.
	page number: 	p. 28, cat. no. 48
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	Shepherd, Dorothy G. "Two Fatimid Tapestry Roundels." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 39, no. 8 (October 1952): 215–217.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25141827

	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. 690
	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. 213
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n237

	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. 213
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n237

	Schapiro, Meyer. "The Miniatures of the Florence Diatessaron (Laurentian Ms Or. 81): Their Place in Late Medieval Art and Supposed Connection with Early Christian and Insular Art." <em>The Art Bulletin</em> 55, no. 4 (1973): 494–531.
	page number: 	p. 519, fig. 21
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	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. 116, fig. 3.33; Mentioned: P. 116, 215
	url:		

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IMAGES

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