id: 142643 accession number: 1966.368 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.368 updated: 2025-04-02 13:30:36.597000 Celestial banquet hanging, from the tomb of Bishop Gurb, 1200–1284. Spain, probably Almeria. Silk and gold thread: plain weave with inwoven tapestry weave; overall: 21.2 x 58.4 cm (8 3/8 x 23 in.); mounted: 30.2 x 67 cm (11 7/8 x 26 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1966.368 title: Celestial banquet hanging, from the tomb of Bishop Gurb title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1200–1284 creation date earliest: 1200 creation date latest: 1284 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Spain, probably Almeria technique: Silk and gold thread: plain weave with inwoven tapestry weave department: Textiles collection: T - Islamic type: Textile find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 21.2 x 58.4 cm (8 3/8 x 23 in.); Mounted: 30.2 x 67 cm (11 7/8 x 26 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Arabic inscription bordering the roundels translates: "There is no god but God." translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1967 opening date: 1967-11-29T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1967. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967). title: Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages opening date: 1985-01-22T05:00:00 Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 22-March 17, 1985). 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 Gallery 207 Rotation opening date: 2001-06-19T04:00:00 Islamic Gallery 207 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 19, 2001-June 3, 2002). title: Al-Andalus: Art from Islamic Spain (Islamic art rotation) opening date: 2019-10-29T04:00:00 Al-Andalus: Art from Islamic Spain (Islamic art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 29, 2019-October 25, 2020). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE reportedly from tomb of Don Arnaldo de Gurb, Bishop of Barcelona [d. 1284], Montaner-Capmany, Barcelona, Spain date: 1200s footnotes: citations: (Arturo Ramon Garriga, Barcelona, Spain, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1966 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1966– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Shepherd, Dorothy G. “A Treasure from a Thirteenth-Century Spanish Tomb.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 65, no. 4 (April 1978): 111–134. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 111–134 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25159577 Brett, Michael, and Werner Forman. The Moors: Islam in the West. London: Orbis Pub, 1980. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 15 url: Martin Nagy, Rebecca. Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 35–37, 58, cat no. 12; fig. 23, 25. url: 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.189, fig. 5.22; Mentioned: P. 189, 198 url: Akin, Esra. Muthanna / History, Theory, and Aesthetics. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2020. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 134, fig. 5.5 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.368/1966.368_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.368/1966.368_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.368/1966.368_full.tif