id:			130717
accession number:	1953.434
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.434
updated:		2024-03-26 01:58:28.841000

Fragment with Double-Headed "Simurgh"-Eagles, before 1953. Iran or Iraq. Silk: lampas weave; overall: 47.6 x 49.5 cm (18 3/4 x 19 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1953.434

title:				Fragment with Double-Headed "Simurgh"-Eagles
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series:				
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creation date:			before 1953
creation date earliest:		900
creation date latest:		1953
current location:		
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Iran or Iraq
technique:	Silk: lampas weave
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Islamic
type:		Textile
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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 47.6 x 49.5 cm (18 3/4 x 19 1/2 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	man taba asluhu zakiya fi'luhu
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	inscription:	man kabirat himmathuhu kathurat qimatuhu
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		East-West in Art
	opening date:   1966-06-22T04:00:00
	<i>East-West in Art</i>. Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN.

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Persian Art: Before and After the Mongol Conquest</em>. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, (April 6-May 17, 1959).', 'opening_date': '1959-04-06T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>East-West in Art</em>. Indiana University Museum, Bloomington, IN (June 22-October 15, 1966).', 'opening_date': '1966-06-22T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Originally reported as having been found in Bibi Shahr Banu, near Rayy, Iran
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	(Mme. Paul [Margurerite] Mallon [d. 1977], Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1953
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1953-
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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. 679
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n125

	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. 216
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n240

	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. 216
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n240

	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. 273
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n293

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IMAGES

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