id: 152698
accession number: 1985.5
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Cap with Striped Inscribed Silk, 1300s. Mamluk Sultanate (Egypt or Syria). Silk; overall: 11.4 x 16.5 x 16.5 cm (4 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1985.5
title: Cap with Striped Inscribed Silk
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creation date: 1300s
creation date earliest: 1293
creation date latest: 1341
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creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Mamluk Sultanate (Egypt or Syria)
technique: Silk
department: Textiles
collection: T - Islamic
type: Textile
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measurements: Overall: 11.4 x 16.5 x 16.5 cm (4 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.)
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inscription: izz li-mawlana al-sultan al-Malik al-Nasir
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries
opening date: 1991-11-26T05:00:00
Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 26-June 6, 1991).
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).
title: Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa
opening date: 2019-01-24T05:00:00
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa. Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL (organizer) (January 26-June 23, 2019).
title: Africa & Byzantium
opening date: 2023-11-13T05:00:00
Africa & Byzantium. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (co-organizer) (April 14-July 21, 2024).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Bacri Collection, Paris, France
date: by 1934–?
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(Loewi - Robertson, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?–1985
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1985–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire, Etienne Combe, Jean Sauvaget, and Gaston Wiet. Répertoire chronologique d'épigraphie arabe. Le Caire: Impr. de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1931.
page number: vol. 15, no. 5876
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Schmidt, J. Heinrich. “Damaste Der Mamlūkenzeit.” Ars Islamica 1, no. 1 (1934): 99–109.
page number: Reproduced: p. 108, fig. 12
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4515464
Combe, Etienne, Jean Sauvaget, and Gaston Wiet. Répertoire chronologique d'épigraphie arabe. Vol. 15. Le Caire: Impr. de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1956.
page number: no. 5876
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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. 162, p. 69
url: https://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: Reproduced: pp. 20–21, fig. 26
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159970
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: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 21–22, fig. 26
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159970
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. 262, fig. 7.22; Mentioned: P. 263
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Soud, David. "Courting Beauty: How Artists, Patrons, and Intellectuals Fused Traditions and Created Distinctive Works Across the Islamic World." Humanities 37, no. 1 (January/February 2016): 12–16.
page number: Reproduced: p. 15
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Berzock, Kathleen Bickford. Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange Across Medieval Saharan Africa. Evanston, IL: Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University: in association with Princeton University Press, 2019.
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Mühlemann, Corinne. Complex Weaves: Technique, Text, and Cultural History of Striped Silks. Affalterbach: Didymos-Verlag, 2023.
page number: Mentioned: p. 14, fig. 4.1, p. 16, p. 85, p. 113-116, p. 119; Mentioned and reproduced: p. 198-199, no. 4, figs. 4.1-4.2
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