id: 156047 accession number: 1991.3 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.3 updated: 2023-12-08 21:50:35.393000 Tapestry with golden lions and palmettes, 1200s or earlier. Central Asia. Silk, gold thread; tapestry weave; overall: 63.5 x 34.7 cm (25 x 13 11/16 in.); mounted: 73.7 x 45.7 cm (29 x 18 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1991.3 title: Tapestry with golden lions and palmettes title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1200s or earlier creation date earliest: 1150 creation date latest: 1299 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Central Asia technique: silk, gold thread; tapestry weave department: Textiles collection: T - Islamic type: Textile find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 63.5 x 34.7 cm (25 x 13 11/16 in.); Mounted: 73.7 x 45.7 cm (29 x 18 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). 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 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). title: The World of Kubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty opening date: 2010-09-20T00:00:00 The World of Kubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (September 20, 2010-January 2, 2011). 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Spink & Son, Ltd., London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1991 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1991– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Turner, Evan H. "Selected 1991 Acquisitions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 79, no. 2 (1992): 63-83. page number: Reproduced: p. 67; Mentioned: p. 83 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161350 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: Distributed by H.N. Abrams, 1997. page number: cat. no. 19, p. 80-2 url: Watt, James C. Y., and Maxwell K. Hearn. The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2010. page number: Reproduced: fig. 260, p. 246 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. 36, fig. 1.20a, P. 229, fig. 6.14; Mentioned: P. 228 url: Highet, Juliet. "Silks from Islamic Lands." The Asian Art Newspaper: Monthly for Collectors, Dealers, Museums and Galleries 17, issue 5 (March 2014):16-18. page number: Reproduced: p. 18 url: Fircks, Juliane von. "Dou Royaume des Tartares vient Drap Dor et de Soie." Histoire de l'Art 82, issue 1 (2018). page number: Reproduced: p. 176, fig. 9 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1991.3/1991.3_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1991.3/1991.3_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1991.3/1991.3_full.tif