id: 152509 accession number: 1985.33 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.33 updated: 2025-04-26 11:02:16.849000 Textile with Tiny Leaves, 1275–1350. Central Asia, Mongol period, late 13th - mid-14th century. Silk and gold thread; tabby with supplementary weft; overall: 14.5 x 15.5 cm (5 11/16 x 6 1/8 in.); mounted: 30.5 x 33.7 cm (12 x 13 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1985.33 title: Textile with Tiny Leaves title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1275–1350 creation date earliest: 1275 creation date latest: 1350 current location: creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: --- culture: Central Asia, Mongol period, late 13th - mid-14th century technique: Silk and gold thread; tabby with supplementary weft department: Textiles collection: Textiles type: Textile find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 14.5 x 15.5 cm (5 11/16 x 6 1/8 in.); Mounted: 30.5 x 33.7 cm (12 x 13 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Year in Review for 1985 opening date: 1986-02-12T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1985. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 12-April 20, 1986). 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (March 2-May 17, 1998). title: Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350 opening date: 2024-10-07T04:00:00 Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (October 7, 2024-January 26, 2025) https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/siena-the-rise-of-painting-1300-1350; National Gallery, London, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (March 8-June 22, 2025). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Spink & Son, Ltd., London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1985 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1985– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1985." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 73, no. 2 (1986): 26-71. page number: Mentioned: no. 163, p. 69 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159930 Wardwell, Anne E. "Flight of the Phoenix: Crosscurrents in Late Thirteenth- to Fourteenth-Century Silk Patterns and Motifs." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 74, no. 1 (1987): 2-35. page number: pp. 2–35, fig. 7 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159970 Wardwell, Anne E. "Panni Tartarici: Eastern Islamic Silks Woven with Gold and Silver (13th and 14th Centuries)." In Islamic Art III, 95-173. New York: The Islamic Art Foundation, 1989. page number: Mentioned: pp. 95–173; Reproduced: Fig. 3 url: Indictor, N., R. J. Koestler, M. Wypyski, and A. E. Wardwell. "Metal Threads Made of Proteinaceous Substrates Examined by Scanning Electron Microscopy: Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectrometry." Studies in Conservation 34, no. 4 (1989). page number: pp. 171–182 url: doi:10.2307/1506284. 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: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 38, p. 148 url: Rosati, Maria Ludovica. Il parato di Benedetto XI: storia di un tesoro. Genova: Fondazione Bruschettini per l'arte islamica e asiatica; Milano: Dario Cimorelli editore, 2023. page number: Mentioned: p. 114; reproduced: p. 111, fig. 10 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.33/1985.33_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.33/1985.33_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.33/1985.33_full.tif