id:			149006
accession number:	1977.16
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1977.16
updated:		2024-08-08 15:16:01.446000

Silk Fragment, 1350–99. Italy. Silk and gold thread: lampas weave, brocaded; overall: 25 x 35.5 cm (9 13/16 x 14 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1977.16

title:				Silk Fragment
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creation date:			1350–99
creation date earliest:		1350
creation date latest:		1399
current location:		
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Italy
technique:	Silk and gold thread: lampas weave, brocaded
department:	Textiles
collection:	Textiles
type:		Textile
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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 25 x 35.5 cm (9 13/16 x 14 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	oval cartouches contain arabic in distorted Naskhi: "al-sultan."
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1977
	opening date:   1977-12-28T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1977</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1977-January 22, 1978).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Gallery 214 installation</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (removed from gallery for 3 mos. restoration)', 'opening_date': None}

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PROVENANCE

	anonymous French collection
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	(Loewi-Robertson, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1977
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1977–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Wardwell, Anne E. "Flight of the Phoenix: Crosscurrents in Late Thirteenth- to Fourteenth-Century Silk Patterns and Motifs." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 74, no. 1 (1987): 2-35.
	page number: 	p. 29, fig. 36, 36a
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25159970.

	Müller, Kathrin. <em>Musterhaft naturgetreu: Tiere in Seiden, Zeichnungen und Tapisserien des 14. und 15.</em> <em>Jahrhunderts.</em> Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2020.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 164, farabb. 22
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IMAGES

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