id:			133122
accession number:	1955.52
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1955.52
updated:		2024-03-26 01:58:37.578000

Fragment of Tomb Cover, before 1955. Iran or Iraq. Silk: double-face compound twill; overall: 78.1 x 66 cm (30 3/4 x 26 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1955.52

title:				Fragment of Tomb Cover
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series:				
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creation date:			before 1955
creation date earliest:		998
creation date latest:		1955
current location:		
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Iran or Iraq
technique:	Silk: double-face compound twill
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Islamic
type:		Textile
find spot:	
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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 78.1 x 66 cm (30 3/4 x 26 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	[al-maw]t bab wa-kull al-nas dakhiluhu ya layta shi-ri ba'd al-bab ma al-d[ar]
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	inscription:	inna a[l-dar ja]nnah khalid[ah] in 'amilta bi-ma yardá al-Ilah wa-in qasarta fal-nar
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	inscription:	fi sanati thaman wa-thamanin wa-thal[a]thami'ah
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Woven Treasures of Persian Art</em>. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (April 1-May 23, 1959).', 'opening_date': '1959-04-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': "<em>Sept mille ans d'art en Iran</em>. Petit Palais, Paris, France (October 1-December 31, 1961).", 'opening_date': '1961-10-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Originally reported as having been found at or near 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: ?-1955
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1955-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Shepherd, Dorothy G. “A Dated Persian Silk of the Buyid Period.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 43, no. 2, 1956, pp. 19–22.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 19-22; Reproduced: p. 21 (detail of inscription)
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142101

	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. 675
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n124

	<em>Woven Treasures of Persian Art; Persian Textiles from the 6th to the 19th Century</em>. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum, 1959.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 22-23, cat. no. 11
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	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. 215
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n239

	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. 215
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n239

	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. 271
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n291

	Bloom, Jonathan M. “Facts and Fantasy in Buyid Art.” <em>Oriente Moderno</em> 23 (84), no. 2 (2004): 387–400.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 387-400; Reproduced: fig. 7, p. 400
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25817939

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