id: 129261 accession number: 1952.15 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.15 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:22.618000 Fragment with eagles in roundels from the Reliquary of Saint Librada in Siguenza Cathedral, 1100–50. Spain, Almeria. Silk and gold thread: lampas weave; overall: 36.8 x 40.6 cm (14 1/2 x 16 in.); mount: 47 x 50.8 cm (18 1/2 x 20 in.); framed: 49.5 x 53.3 cm (19 1/2 x 21 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1952.15 title: Fragment with eagles in roundels from the Reliquary of Saint Librada in Siguenza Cathedral title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1100–50 creation date earliest: 1100 creation date latest: 1150 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Spain, Almeria technique: Silk and gold thread: lampas weave department: Textiles collection: T - Islamic type: Textile find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 36.8 x 40.6 cm (14 1/2 x 16 in.); Mount: 47 x 50.8 cm (18 1/2 x 20 in.); Framed: 49.5 x 53.3 cm (19 1/2 x 21 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: inscription beneath claws of the large heraldic eagle: "baraka" (Blessing); another inscription on the wings seems to be of pseudo-Gothic letters. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Al-Andalus: Art from Islamic Spain (Islamic art rotation) opening date: 2019-10-29T04:00:00 Al-Andalus: Art from Islamic Spain (Islamic art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 29, 2019-October 25, 2020). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Spanish Medieval Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters, New York, NY (December 15, 1954-January 30, 1955).', 'opening_date': '1954-12-15T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The Meeting of Two Worlds: The Crusades and the Mediterranean Context. The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (May 9-September 27, 1981).', 'opening_date': '1981-05-09T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The Heritage of Islam. Houston, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Washington D.C. (March 10, 1982-September 5, 1983).', 'opening_date': '1982-03-10T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Gallery 216. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July, 1991).', 'opening_date': '1991-07-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE the fragment was found c. 1948 in the Cathedral of Siguenza, Spain, in the reliquary of Saint Librada (1st c.), whose relics were restored to the Cathedral in the 12th century; it is said to have been brought there from Almeria in 1147 by Alphonse VII; (Paul O. Berliz, New York). date: footnotes: citations: (Paul O. Berliz, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1952 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1952- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Spanish Medieval Art. Loan Exhibition in Honor of Dr. Walter W.S. Cook. New York: New York University. Institute of Fine Arts. Alumni Association.1954. page number: p. 22, no. 69 url: Shepherd, Dorothy G. "Two Hispano-Islamic Silks in Diasper Weave." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 42, no. 1 (1955): 6-10. page number: pp. 6-10 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25142005. Shepherd, Dorothy G. "A Dated Hispano-Islamic Silk." Ars Orientalis 2 (1957): 373-82. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 378, pl. 10, fig. 4 url: www.jstor.org/stable/4629043 May, Florence Lewis. Silk Textiles of Spain, Eighth to Fifteenth Century. New York: Printed by order of the trustees, the Hispanic Society of America, 1957. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 39-40, fig. 25 url: 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. 120 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n35 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. 218 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n242 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. 218 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n242 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. 275 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n295 Bornstein, Christine Verzár, and Priscilla Parsons Soucek. The Meeting of Two Worlds: The Crusades and the Mediterranean Context : [Exhibition], the University of Michigan Museum of Art, May 9-September 27, 1981. Ann Arbor: The Museum, 1981. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 3, pp. 24-25 url: Edwards, Holly. Patterns and Precision, the Arts and Sciences of Islam. [Washington, D.C.]: National Committee to Honor the Fourteenth Centennial of Islam, 1982. page number: p. 53, cat. no. 155 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. 180-181, fig. 5.10; Mentioned: P. 180 url: Blessing, Patricia, Elizabeth Dospěl Williams, and Eiren L. Shea. Medieval Textiles Across Eurasia, C. 300-1400. Cambridge, United Kingdom; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2023. page number: Reproduced: p. 72; Mentioned: p. 73, fig. 63 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.15/1952.15_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.15/1952.15_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.15/1952.15_full.tif