id: 135579
accession number: 1959.124
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Roundels with Hunters, 800s. Eastern Iran or Central Asia. Silk: samite weave; overall: 26.5 x 25.5 cm (10 7/16 x 10 1/16 in.); mounted: 46.4 x 74.3 cm (18 1/4 x 29 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Textile Art Alliance 1959.124
title: Roundels with Hunters
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creation date: 800s
creation date earliest: 800
creation date latest: 899
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creditline: Gift of The Textile Art Alliance
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culture: Eastern Iran or Central Asia
technique: Silk: samite weave
department: Textiles
collection: Textiles
type: Textile
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measurements: Overall: 26.5 x 25.5 cm (10 7/16 x 10 1/16 in.); Mounted: 46.4 x 74.3 cm (18 1/4 x 29 1/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Material Matters: Fifty Years of Gifts from the Textile Arts Club
opening date: 1984-11-21T05:00:00
Material Matters: Fifty Years of Gifts from the Textile Arts Club. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 21-December 30, 1984).
title: The Twain Shall Meet
opening date: 1985-10-30T05:00:00
The Twain Shall Meet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986).
title: When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian & Chinese Textiles from the Cleveland and Metropolitan Museums of Art
opening date: 1997-10-19T00:00:00
When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian & Chinese Textiles from the Cleveland and Metropolitan Museums of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 26, 1997-January 4, 1998); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 26, 1997-January 4, 1998); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (March 2-May 17, 1998); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (March 2-May 17, 1998).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
(Mrs. Paul [Marguerite] Mallon [d. 1977], Paris, France, sold to the Textile Art Alliance for gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?-1959
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1959-
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RELATED WORKS
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Roundels with Hunters, 800s. Eastern Iran or Central Asia. Silk: samite weave; overall: 26 x 29 cm (10 1/4 x 11 7/16 in.); mounted: 46.4 x 74.3 cm (18 1/4 x 29 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1982.284
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CITATIONS
Shepherd, Dorothy G. “Medieval Persian Silks in Fact and Fancy: A Refutation of the Riggisberg Report.” Bulletin Du Cieta, Centre International D'étude Des Textiles Anciens 1974, no. 39-40
page number: Reproduced and mentioned: p. 131, fig. 53
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Shepherd, Dorothy G. "Zandanījī Revisited" In Müller-Christensen, Sigrid, Mechthild Flury-Lemberg, and Karen Stolleis. Documenta textilia: Festschrift für Sigrid Müller-Christensen. München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1981.
page number: Reproduced and mentioend: p. 105-122, cat. 98, fig. 4
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Wardwell, Anne E. Material Matters: Fifty Years of Gifts from the Textile Arts Club, 1934-1984. Cleveland: The Museum, 1984.
page number: Reproduced and mentioned: p. 14, cat. 16
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Neils, Jenifer. "The Twain Shall Meet." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 6 (1985): 326-59.
page number: Mentioned: p. 359, no. 90
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25159914
Watt, James C. Y., Anne E. Wardwell, and Morris Rossabi. When silk was gold: Central Asian and Chinese textiles. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art in cooperation with the Cleveland Museum of Art : Distributed by H.N. Abrams,
page number: Reproduced and mentioned: p. 31, no. 2
url: https://archive.org/details/WhenSilkWasGoldCentralAsianChineseTextile/page/n41/mode/2up
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. 63, fig. 2.26; Mentioned: P. 61
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