id: 152698 accession number: 1985.5 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.5 updated: 2024-04-13 11:22:53.419000 Cap with striped inscribed silk, 1300s. Egypt or Syria, Mamluk period, probably Sultanate of Nasir al-Din Muhammad, 1293-1341. Silk: lampas; 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1300s creation date earliest: 1293 creation date latest: 1341 current location: 003 Special Exhibition Hall creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Egypt or Syria, Mamluk period, probably Sultanate of Nasir al-Din Muhammad, 1293-1341 technique: Silk: lampas department: Textiles collection: T - Islamic type: Textile find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 11.4 x 16.5 x 16.5 cm (4 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: izz li-mawlana al-sultan al-Malik al-Nasir translation: remark: --- 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Bacri Collection, Paris, France date: by 1934–? footnotes: citations: (Loewi - Robertson, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, 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 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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. page number: url: 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 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.5/1985.5_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.5/1985.5_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.5/1985.5_full.tif