id: 148006 accession number: 1974.98 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1974.98 updated: 2023-03-11 20:51:03.314000 Samite fragment with hunters, 800s. Eastern Iran or Central Asia. Compound twill, silk; overall: 22 x 41.8 cm (8 11/16 x 16 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1974.98 title: Samite fragment with hunters title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 800s creation date earliest: 800 creation date latest: 899 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Eastern Iran or Central Asia technique: compound twill, silk department: Textiles collection: Textiles type: Textile find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 22 x 41.8 cm (8 11/16 x 16 7/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (March 2-May 17, 1998). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Dr. Emil Delmar [1876-1959], Budapest, Hungary, and New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1974 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1974- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This silk preserves pairs of horsemen hunting ibexes (mountain goats). The ibexes and two pairs of rabbits originally filled the spaces between rows of large floral roundels. Portions of the roundels are preserved at the top and bottom. Although the design was greatly influenced by silks from Egypt and Syria, the abstract style is typically Sogdian. This is one of many Sogdian silks that were traded to Europe and eventually preserved in church treasuries. --- RELATED WORKS --- 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1974.98/1974.98_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1974.98/1974.98_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1974.98/1974.98_full.tif