id:			129826
accession number:	1952.257
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.257
updated:		2024-04-25 14:35:58.304000

Embroidered border and field of animals in large roundels, 1000s-1100s. Iraq, probably Baghdad, Seljuk period. Plain weave: silk warp and cotton weft (mulham); embroidery, couched, split, running, and outline stitches: silk and gold thread; overall: 26.7 x 12.4 cm (10 1/2 x 4 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1952.257

title:				Embroidered border and field of animals in large roundels
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creation date:			1000s-1100s
creation date earliest:		1000
creation date latest:		1199
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Iraq, probably Baghdad, Seljuk period
technique:	plain weave: silk warp and cotton weft (mulham); embroidery, couched, split, running, and outline stitches: silk and gold thread
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Islamic
type:		Textile
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measurements: Overall: 26.7 x 12.4 cm (10 1/2 x 4 7/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Twain Shall Meet
	opening date:   1985-10-30T05:00:00
	<i>The Twain Shall Meet</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Jacques Matossian, Cairo; Mme. Paul Mallon, Paris.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Lamm, C. J. Cotton in Mediaeval Textiles of the Near East. Paris: P. Geuthner, 1937.
	page number: 	p. 126
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	Wiet, Gaston. 1937. “Tissus Brodes Mesopotamiens.” <em>Ars Islamica</em> 4: 54–63.
	page number: 	p. 43-62, fig. 2
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	Niño, Felipa. Las mitras de Roda. Madrid: Instituto Diego Velazquez, 1941.
	page number: 	p. 143
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	Neils, Jenifer. "The Twain Shall Meet." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 72, no. 6 (1985): 326-59.
	page number: 	no. 61
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25159914.

	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. 158, fig. 4.30; Mentioned: P. 156
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