id: 150895 accession number: 1982.284 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1982.284 updated: 2023-03-11 20:51:18.357000 Roundels with Hunters, 800s. Eastern Iran or Central Asia. Silk; samite weave; overall: 26 x 29 cm (10 1/4 x 11 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1982.284 title: Roundels 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: Silk; samite weave department: Textiles collection: Textiles type: Textile find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 26 x 29 cm (10 1/4 x 11 7/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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 Mrs. Paul [Marguerite] Mallon [d. 1977], Paris, France date: footnotes: citations: (Goumaronart, Inc, Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art). date: ?-1982 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1982- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This textile consists of two fragments mounted together (1959.124 and 1982.284). The two roundels have different diameters, even though the number of warps per repeat is the same. digital description: wall description: These textiles are woven with floral roundels that enclose horsemen hunting lions. The theme of horsemen hunting with lances, the floral frames of the roundels, and the costumes of the hunters were all inspired by silks from the Byzantine world. The stiff, abstracted style, however, is characteristic of Sogdian silks, woven in Sogdiana and often traded to distant markets. These fragments were preserved in an Egyptian grave where they were found sewn as ornaments onto a tunic. --- RELATED WORKS id: 135579 Roundels with Hunters, 800s. Eastern Iran or Central Asia. Silk; samite weave; overall: 26.5 x 25.5 cm (10 7/16 x 10 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Textile Art Alliance 1959.124 relationship: --- CITATIONS Shepherd, Dorothy G. “Medieval Persian Silks in Fact and Fancy: A Refutation of the Riggisberg Report.” Bulletin Du Cieta, Centre International D'étude Des Textiles Anciens 1974, no. 39-40 page number: Reproduced and mentioned: p. 131, fig. 53 url: Shepherd, Dorothy G. "Medieval Persian Silks in Fact and Fancy." In Müller-Christensen, Sigrid, Mechthild Flury-Lemberg, and Karen Stolleis. Documenta textilia: Festschrift für Sigrid Müller-Christensen. München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1981. page number: Reproduced and mentioned: p. 122, fig. 4, cat. 98 url: Wardwell, Anne E. Material Matters: Fifty Years of Gifts from the Textile Arts Club, 1934-1984. Cleveland: The Museum, 1984. page number: Mentioned: p.24, cat. 16 url: Neils, Jenifer. "The Twain Shall Meet." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 6 (1985): 326-59. page number: Mentioned: p. 359, cat. 90 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25159914 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 : Distributed by H.N. Abrams, 1997. page number: Reproduced and mentioned: p. 31, cat. 2 url: https://archive.org/details/WhenSilkWasGoldCentralAsianChineseTextile/page/n41/mode/2up 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. 2.26; Mentioned: P. 61 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.284/1982.284_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.284/1982.284_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.284/1982.284_full.tif