id: 135988
accession number: 1959.48
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Pillow cover with Arabic inscription, 800s. Egypt, al-Bahnasa. Wool and linen: tapestry weave; overall: 80 x 83.2 cm (31 1/2 x 32 3/4 in.); mounted: 93.3 x 95.9 cm (36 3/4 x 37 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1959.48
title: Pillow cover with Arabic inscription
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creation date: 800s
creation date earliest: 800
creation date latest: 899
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creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Egypt, al-Bahnasa
technique: Wool and linen: tapestry weave
department: Textiles
collection: T - Islamic
type: Textile
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CREATORS
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measurements: Overall: 80 x 83.2 cm (31 1/2 x 32 3/4 in.); Mounted: 93.3 x 95.9 cm (36 3/4 x 37 3/4 in.)
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inscription: "In the name of God. Blessing from God to its owner. Of what was made in the tiraz."
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Juxtapositions
opening date: 1965-09-11T04:00:00
Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965).
title: Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries
opening date: 1991-11-26T05:00:00
Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 26-June 6, 1991).
title: Islamic art rotation
opening date: 2013-12-16T05:00:00
Islamic art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 2013-December 15, 2014).
title: Social Fabrics: Inscribed Textiles from Egyptian Tombs, 9th - 12th Century
opening date: 2022-01-22T05:00:00
Social Fabrics: Inscribed Textiles from Egyptian Tombs, 9th - 12th Century. Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA (organizer) (January 22-May 8, 2022) https://harvardartmuseums.org/exhibitions/5836/social-fabrics-inscribed-textiles-from-medieval-egyptian-tombs.
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'The Heritage of Islam, Houston, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Washington D.C.(March 10, 1982-September 5, 1983), no. 173.', 'opening_date': '1982-03-10T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Gallery 207 textile rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 20, 2002-May 6, 2004).', 'opening_date': '2002-06-20T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
(Mrs. Paul [Marguerite] Mallon [d. 1977], Paris, France, sold 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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CITATIONS
Shepherd, Dorothy G. "An Early Tiraz from Egypt." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 47, no. 1 (1960): 7-14.
page number: p. 7-14
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25142373.
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 213
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n237
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 213
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n237
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 269
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n289
Edwards, Holly. Patterns and Precision, the Arts and Sciences of Islam. Washington, DC: National Committee to Honor the Fourteenth Centennial of Islam, 1982.
page number: p. 54, no.173
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Cornu, Georgette, Odile Valansot, and Hélène Meyer. Tissus islamiques de la collection Pfister. Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, 1992.
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Baker, Patricia L. Islamic Textiles. London: British Museum Press, 1995.
page number: p. 55
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Paetz, Annette gen. Schieck. “Late Roman cushions and the principles of their decoration.” In Moor, A. de, and Cäcilia Fluck. Clothing the House: Furnishing Textiles of the 1st Millennium AD from Egypt and Neighbouring Countries : Proceedings of the 5th Conference of the Research Group "Textiles from the Nile Valley" Antwerp, 6-7 October 2007. Tielt, Belgium: Lannoo Publishers, 2009.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 115-131; Reproduced: p. 130
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Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 225
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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. 58-59, fig. 2.20; Mentioned: P. 57, 76,189
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McWilliams, Mary, and Jochen A. Sokoly. Social Fabrics: Inscribed Textiles from Medieval Egyptian Tombs. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Art Museums, 2021.
page number: Mentioned: p. 133; Reproduced: Cover, p. 132, 146,fig. 7.
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