id: 152587 accession number: 1985.4 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.4 updated: 2022-02-12 10:00:26.278000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: late 1200s-1300s creation date earliest: 1275 creation date latest: 1399 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Eastern Iran, Ilkhanid period technique: lampas: silk, cotton, and gold thread department: Textiles collection: T - Islamic type: Textile find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 43.5 x 39.5 cm (17 1/8 x 15 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review for 1984 opening date: 1985-04-03T04:00:00 Year in Review for 1984. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 3-May 5, 1985). title: The Twain Shall Meet opening date: 1985-10-30T04:00:00 The Twain Shall Meet. 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 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 --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: The elegant design of standing or diving phoenixes among parallel, curving floral vines is based on Chinese textiles. The phoenixes are actually of two types (notice the difference in their tails). Their combination, probably an innovation of Yuan China (1279-1368), also appears on the embroidered canopy (cat. no. 60) in this exhibition. In the eastern Iranian world, Chinese motifs and patterns were incorporated into local designs beginning in the 1270s. --- RELATED WORKS --- 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.” Textile History 19 (1). 1988. page number: p. 3-22 url: 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: p. 95-173; Reproduced: Fig. 30, 74 url: Wardwell, Anne E. “Recently Discovered Textiles Woven in the Western Part of Central Asia before A.D. 1220.” Textile History 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 url: 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. 233, fig. 6.18; Mentioned: P. 228, 235 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.4/1985.4_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.4/1985.4_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.4/1985.4_full.tif