id: 150738
accession number: 1982.16
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Silk curtain from the Alhambra palace, 1300s. Spain, Granada, Nasrid period. Lampas and taqueté: silk; overall: 438.2 x 271.8 cm (172 1/2 x 107 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1982.16
title: Silk curtain from the Alhambra palace
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creation date: 1300s
creation date earliest: 1300
creation date latest: 1399
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creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
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culture: Spain, Granada, Nasrid period
technique: lampas and taqueté: silk
department: Textiles
collection: T - Islamic
type: Textile
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measurements: Overall: 438.2 x 271.8 cm (172 1/2 x 107 in.)
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inscription: the bold knotted Kufic inscription in the top and bottom borders of the side panels repeats the Arabic word "felicity." Within the arches forming a frieze in the top border is a Kufic inscription "good fortune" and a Naskhi inscription repeating trhe motto of the Nasrid dynasty, "There is no conqueror but God." In the borders of the three large ornamental rectangles on each side panel is the Naskhi inscription "Dominion belongs to God alone." On the central panel the inscriptions in the borders repeat the phrase, "Majestry is God's," while the Nasrid motto, "There is no conqueror but God" and, above, "Blessing," are inscribed in the arabesque ogives.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Luxuriance: Silks from Islamic Lands, 1250-1900
opening date: 2013-05-14T04:00:00
Luxuriance: Silks from Islamic Lands, 1250-1900. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 14, 2013-June 23, 2014).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain. Alhambra, Granada, Spain (March 18-June 7, 1992); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (July 1-September 27, 1992).', 'opening_date': '1992-03-18T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
(Miguel Rodriguez-Acosta, Granada, Spain, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?-1982
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1982-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Partearroyo, Cristina. "Spanish-Muslem Textile," Bulletin de Liaison du Centre international d'etude des textiles anciens, no. 45, pt. 1 (1977), pp. 78-85.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 78-85; Reproduced: p. 79, figs. 1-2; p. 85, fig. 3
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Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review for 1982.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 70, no. 1, 1983, pp. 3–55.
page number: Reproduced: no. 73, p. 7; Mentioned: no. 73, p. 53
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25159799
Wardwell, Anne E. “A Fifteenth-Century Silk Curtain from Muslim Spain.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 70, no. 2, 1983, pp. 58–72.
page number: Reproduced: cover, p. 60, fig. 4; Mentioned: p. 72, no. 4
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25159802
Martin Nagy, Rebecca. Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985.
page number: fig. 26, pp. 40-41
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Dodds, Jerrilynn Denise. Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992.
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"1991 Annual Report." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 79, no. 6 (1992): 155-231.
page number: Mentioned: p. 173
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161363
Jayyusi, Salma Khadra, and Manuela Marín. The Legacy of Muslim Spain. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994.
page number: Reproduced: fig. 14
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Pérez Higuera, Teresa. Objetos e imagenes de al-Andalus. Madrid: Instituto de Cooperación con el Mundo Arabe, 1994.
page number: Reproduced: pp. 98-99
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Baker, Patricia L. Islamic Textiles. London: British Museum Press, 1995.
page number: Reproduced: p. 6
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Rothstein, Natalie. "Textile: Patterns: Loom-made compound weaves, Lampas" in The Dictionary of Art, vol. 30, pp. 550-554. J. S. Turner, ed. New York: Grove, 1996.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 550-554; Reproduced: p. 552, pl. VII, 1, p. 553
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Ghereh: international carpet & textile review, no.20 (Summer 1999).
page number: Comparative material reproduced: pp. 123-124
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Jacobs, Michael, and Francisco Fernandez. Alhambra. London: Frances Lincoln, 2000.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 34-35
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Alves, Adalberto. A herança árabe em Portugal. Lisboa: CTT Correios, 2001.
page number: Reproduced: p. 28
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Irwin, Robert. The Alhambra. London: Profile, 2004.
page number: Reproduced: p. 120, no. 14
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Highet, Juliet. "Silks from Islamic Lands." The Asian Art Newspaper: Monthly for Collectors, Dealers, Museums and Galleries 17, issue 5 (March 2014): 16-18.
page number: p. 16
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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. 166, 196, fig. 5.28; Mentioned: P. 197-198
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Clarke, Sarah E. Braddock, and Ryoko Yamanaka Kondo. Byzantine Silk on the Silk Roads: Journeys between East and West, Past and Present. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022.
page number: Reproduced: p. 93, fig. 7.6
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