id: 148006
accession number: 1974.98
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Samite fragment with hunters, 800s. Eastern Iran or Central Asia. Silk: compound twill; overall: 22 x 41.8 cm (8 11/16 x 16 7/16 in.); mounted: 40 x 61 cm (15 3/4 x 24 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1974.98
title: Samite fragment with hunters
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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: Eastern Iran or Central Asia
technique: Silk: compound twill
department: Textiles
collection: Textiles
type: Textile
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measurements: Overall: 22 x 41.8 cm (8 11/16 x 16 7/16 in.); Mounted: 40 x 61 cm (15 3/4 x 24 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1974
opening date: 1975-03-11T04:00:00
Year in Review: 1974. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 11-April 6, 1975).
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
(Dr. Emil Delmar [1876–1959], Budapest, Hungary, and New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?–1974
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1974–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1974.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 62, no. 3, 1975, pp. 62–102.
page number: no. 152, p. 102
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152580
Müller-Christensen, Sigrid, Mechthild Flury-Lemberg, and Karen Stolleis. Documenta textilia: Festschrift für Sigrid Müller-Christensen. München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1981.
page number: pp. 105-122, cat. no. 36
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Shepherd, Dorothy G. “Zandaniji Revisited.” In Documenta textilia: Festschrift für Sigrid Müller-Christensen. Müller-Christensen, Sigrid, Mechthild Flury-Lemberg, and Karen Stolleis, editors. München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1981.
page number: pp. 105-122, cat. no. 36
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Wardwell, Anne E. “Recently Discovered Textiles Woven in the Western Part of Central Asia Before A.D. 1220.” Textile History 20 (2): 175–84.
page number: pp. 175-84
url: https://doi.org/10.1179/004049689793700248.
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, 1997.
page number: cat. no. 1, pp. 21, 30
url: https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15324coll10/id/62400
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. 2.25; Mentioned: P. 61
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