id:			152587
accession number:	1985.4
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.4
updated:		2024-04-10 11:01:07.382000

Lampas with phoenixes amid undulating vines, late 1200s-1300s. Eastern Iran, Ilkhanid period. Lampas: silk, cotton, and gold thread; overall: 43.5 x 39.5 cm (17 1/8 x 15 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1985.4

title:				Lampas with phoenixes amid undulating vines
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creation date:			late 1200s-1300s
creation date earliest:		1275
creation date latest:		1399
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Eastern Iran, Ilkhanid period
technique:	lampas: silk, cotton, and gold thread
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Islamic
type:		Textile
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measurements: Overall: 43.5 x 39.5 cm (17 1/8 x 15 9/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review for 1984
	opening date:   1985-04-03T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review for 1984</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 3-May 5, 1985).

	title:		The Twain Shall Meet
	opening date:   1985-10-30T05:00:00
	<i>The Twain Shall Meet</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 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
	<i>When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian & Chinese Textiles from the Cleveland and Metropolitan Museums of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 26, 1997-January 4, 1998); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 26, 1997-January 4, 1998); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (March 2-May 17, 1998); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (March 2-May 17, 1998).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Wardwell, A. (1987). Flight of the Phoenix: Crosscurrents in Late Thirteenth- to Fourteenth-Century Silk Patterns and Motifs. The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 74(1), 2-35.
	page number: 	p. 2-35, fig. 8
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159970

	Indictor, Norman, Robert J. (Robert John) Koestler, Christopher Blair, and Anne E. Wardwell. “The Evaluation of Metal Wrappings from Medieval Textiles Using Scanning Electron Microscopy-Energy Dispersive x-Ray Spectrometry.” <em>Textile History</em> 19 (1). 1988.
	page number: 	p. 3-22
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	Wardwell, Anne E. "Panni Tartarici: Eastern Islamic Silks Woven with Gold and Silver (13th and 14th Centuries)." In <em>Islamic Art III, </em>95-173. New York: The Islamic Art Foundation, 1989.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 95-173; Reproduced: Fig. 30, 74
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	Wardwell, Anne E. “Recently Discovered Textiles Woven in the Western Part of Central Asia before A.D. 1220.” <em>Textile History</em> 20 (November). 1989. 175–84.
	page number: 	p. 175-184
	url:		https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1767378

	Watt, James C. Y., Anne E. Wardwell, and Morris Rossabi. When silk was gold: Central Asian and Chinese textiles. 1997.
	page number: 	pp. 162-163, reproduced in color, p. 163
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	Mackie, Louise W. <em>Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century</em>. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 233, fig. 6.18; Mentioned: P. 228, 235
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