id:			128065
accession number:	1950.84
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.84
updated:		2024-03-26 01:58:17.426000

Fragment with confronted animal medallions and kufic bands, 1480–1649 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability). Iran. Silk: diasper, tabby weave; overall: 39.6 x 45.4 cm (15 9/16 x 17 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1950.84

title:				Fragment with confronted animal medallions and kufic bands
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creation date:			1480–1649 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)
creation date earliest:		1480
creation date latest:		1649
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Iran
technique:	Silk: diasper, tabby weave
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Islamic
type:		Textile
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measurements: Overall: 39.6 x 45.4 cm (15 9/16 x 17 7/8 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Wa-kull ma badharahu al-Raman la-mu'awwal
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Persian Art Before and After the Mongol Conquest
	opening date:   1959-04-09T05:00:00
	<i>Persian Art Before and After the Mongol Conquest</i>. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (organizer) (April 9-May 17, 1959).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Heeramaneck Galleries, 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

	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. 677
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n124

	<em>Persian Art Before And After the Mongol Conquest.: [Exhibition] April 9-May 17, 1959. the University of Michigan, Museum of Art, Ann Arbor</em>. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, Museum of Art, 1959.
	page number: 	Mentioned: cat. no. 109, p. 40; Reproduced: p. 66
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	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. 215
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n239

	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. 215
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n239

	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. 272
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n292

	Blair, Sheila S., Jonathan M. Bloom, and Anne E. Wardwell. "Reevaluating the Date of the "Buyid" Silks by Epigraphic and Radiocarbon Analysis." <em>Ars Orientalis</em> 22 (1992): 1-41.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 30; Mentioned: p. 15
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/4629423

	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. 154, fig. 4a; Mentioned: P. 154-155
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