id:			129264
accession number:	1952.152
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.152
updated:		2025-05-08 11:22:00.831000

Lampas with griffins in roundels, from the Reliquary of Saint Librada in Siguenza Cathedral, 1100–50. Spain, Almeria. Silk and gold thread: lampas and plain-weave variant; overall: 52.7 x 63.5 cm (20 3/4 x 25 in.); mounted: 61 x 71.1 cm (24 x 28 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1952.152

title:				Lampas with griffins in roundels, from the Reliquary of Saint Librada in Siguenza Cathedral
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creation date:			1100–50
creation date earliest:		1100
creation date latest:		1150
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Spain, Almeria
technique:	Silk and gold thread: lampas and plain-weave variant
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Islamic
type:		Textile
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measurements: Overall: 52.7 x 63.5 cm (20 3/4 x 25 in.); Mounted: 61 x 71.1 cm (24 x 28 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Art: The International Language
	opening date:   1956-10-02T04:00:00
	<i>Art: The International Language</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956).

	title:		Islamic art rotation
	opening date:   2013-12-16T05:00:00
	<i>Islamic art rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 2013-December 15, 2014).

	title:		Al-Andalus: Art from Islamic Spain (Islamic art rotation)
	opening date:   2019-10-29T04:00:00
	<i>Al-Andalus: Art from Islamic Spain (Islamic art rotation)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 29, 2019-October 25, 2020).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Spanish Medieval Art</em>. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters, New York, NY (December 15, 1954-January 30, 1955).', 'opening_date': '1954-12-15T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Gallery 216</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July, 1991).', 'opening_date': '1991-07-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	the silk 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
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	(Paul O. Berliz, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1952
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1952-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	New York University. Spanish Medieval Art. Loan Exhibition in Honor of Dr. Walter W.S. Cook. 1954.
	page number: 	p. 22, no. 70
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	Shepherd, Dorothy G. "Two Hispano-Islamic Silks in Diasper Weave." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 42, no. 1 (1955): 6-10.
	page number: 	p. 6-10
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25142005.

	Shepherd, Dorothy G. "A Dated Hispano-Islamic Silk." <em>Ars Orientalis</em> 2 (1957): 373-82.
	page number: 	pl. 10, fig. B
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/4629043.

	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. 121
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n35

	Shepherd, Dorothy. "Two Medieval Silks from Spain." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>45, no. 1 (January 1958): 3-7.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 4
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142255

	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. 178-179, fig. 5.9; Mentioned: P. 180, 215
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	Orlando, Anna, and Guido Rossi. <em>Il re denaro: le monete raccontano Genova fra arte, lusso e parsimonia.</em> Genova : Sagep editori, 2021.
	page number: 	Mentioned: P. 250-251; Reproduced: P. 251, fig. 4
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	Hanson, Robin and Holly Witchey. "Dorothy Shepherd and the Cleveland Museum of Art's Ancient Near Eastern and Islamic Art Collection." <em>Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals</em> 20, n. 3 (September 2024): 461-473.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 467 (fig. 5)
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