id: 129187 accession number: 1951.88 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.88 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:22.272000 Silk fragment with roundels of ducks, 600s. Iran. Samite: silk; overall: 8.3 x 11.4 cm (3 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Textile Arts Club 1951.88 title: Silk fragment with roundels of ducks title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 600s creation date earliest: 600 creation date latest: 699 current location: creditline: Gift of The Textile Arts Club copyright: --- culture: Iran technique: samite: silk department: Textiles collection: Textiles type: Textile find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 8.3 x 11.4 cm (3 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: 35th Anniversary Exhibition opening date: 1951-06-20T04:00:00 35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951). title: The Exhibition of Persian Art: 7000 Years of Art in Iran opening date: 1961-10-19T04:00:00 The Exhibition of Persian Art: 7000 Years of Art in Iran. Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (organizer) (October 19, 1961-January 31, 1962). title: East-West in Art opening date: 1966-06-22T04:00:00 East-West in Art. Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN. title: Near-East Sasanian Silver opening date: 1967-08-13T04:00:00 Near-East Sasanian Silver. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (August 13-September 29, 1967). title: Material Matters: Fifty Years of Gifts from the Textile Arts Club opening date: 1984-11-21T05:00:00 Material Matters: Fifty Years of Gifts from the Textile Arts Club. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 21-December 30, 1984). title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Woven Treasures of Persian Art. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (April 1-May 23, 1959).', 'opening_date': '1959-04-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': "Sept Mille ans d'art en Iran. Petit Palais, Paris, France (October 1-December 31, 1961)", 'opening_date': '1961-10-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'East-West in Art. Indiana University Museum, Bloomington, IN (June 22-October 15, 1966).', 'opening_date': '1966-06-22T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Sasanian Silver: Late Antique and Early Medieval Arts of Luxury from Iran. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (August-September 1967).', 'opening_date': '1967-08-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (Mme. Paul [Margurerite] Mallon [d. 1977], Paris, France, sold to the Textile Arts Club) date: footnotes: citations: The Textile Arts Club, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1951 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1951- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Shepherd, Dorothy G. "A Persian Textile of the Sasanian Period." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 38, no. 6 (1951): 145-47. page number: p.145-7 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25141722. The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 673 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n124 Woven Treasures of Persian Art; Persian Textiles from the 6th to the 19th Century. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum, 1959. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 1 p. 19; Mentioned: cat. no. 1, p. 21 url: Association française d'action artistique, and Roman Ghirshman. Sept mille ans d'art en Iran: Petit Palais, Octobre 1961-Janvier 1962 ; [exposition. [Paris]: [publisher not identified], 1962. page number: no. 858, p. 148 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 15 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n39 Grabar, Oleg. Sasanian Silver; Late Antique and Early Mediaeval Arts of Luxury from Iran. [Ann Arbor, MI]: University of Michigan, 1967. page number: no. 63, p. 142 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 16 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n38 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 8 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n28 Wardwell, Anne E. Material Matters: Fifty Years of Gifts from the Textile Arts Club, 1934-1984 : [Exhibition] 21 November-30 December 1984, the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Museum, 1984. page number: p. 21 url: Mackie, Louise W. Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015. page number: Reproduced: P. 54, fig. 2.14; Mentioned: P. 55 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.88/1951.88_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.88/1951.88_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.88/1951.88_full.tif