id:			147822
accession number:	1974.188
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1974.188
updated:		2023-03-11 20:51:02.175000

Embroidered cotton tiraz, 991–1031. Iraq, Baghdad, Abbasid period, reign of al-Qadir 991–1031. Plain weave: cotton; embroidery, chain and self-couching stitches: silk; overall: 17 x 53 cm (6 11/16 x 20 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Ruth Blumka in memory of Leopold Blumka 1974.188

title:				Embroidered cotton tiraz
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creation date:			991–1031
creation date earliest:		991
creation date latest:		1031
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creditline:			Gift of Ruth Blumka in memory of Leopold Blumka
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culture:	Iraq, Baghdad, Abbasid period, reign of al-Qadir 991–1031
technique:	plain weave: cotton; embroidery, chain and self-couching stitches: silk
department:	Textiles
collection:	Textiles
type:		Embroidery
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measurements: Overall: 17 x 53 cm (6 11/16 x 20 7/8 in.)
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	inscription:	"In the name of God the Merciful, the Compassionate . . . Year three hundred."
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1974
	opening date:   1975-03-11T04:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1974</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 11-April 6, 1975).

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Ausstellung von Meisterwerken muhammedanischer Kunst, 1910 (MUNICH), Max van BERCHEM, Moriz DREGER, Ernst KUEHNEL, Camillo LIST, Fredrik Robert MARTIN, Friedrich SARRE, and Severin SCHROEDER. Die Ausstellung Von Meisterwerken Muhammedanischer Kunst in München, 1910. Herausgegeben Von F. Sarre Und F.R. Martin Unter Mitwirkung Von M. Van Berchem, M. Dreger, E. Kühnel, C. List Und S. Schröder. [With Two Hundred and Fifty-Seven Plates.]. 1912. III
	page number: 	cat. no. 2274, pl. 178
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	Lamm, C. J. Cotton in Mediaeval Textiles of the Near East. Paris: P. Geuthner, 1937.
	page number: 	p. 119
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	Mackie, Louise W. <em>Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century</em>. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 120; Mentioned: p. 121, 123
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