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Silk Fragment

1350–99

Italy, second half of 14th century

Silk and gold thread; lampas weave

Overall: 20.3 x 40.6 cm (8 x 16 in.); Mounted: 30.5 x 50.8 cm (12 x 20 in.)

Dudley P. Allen Fund 1940.1193

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Description

This fragment depicts parallel undulating vines with large peonies with yellow centers, smaller peonies with blue centers, and clusters of flowers.

Provenance

?–1940

(Adolph Loewi [1888-1977], Los Angeles, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1940–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Underhill, Gertrude. "Two Fourteenth-Century Italian Silks." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 28, no. 9 (1941): 138-43. p. 138-39 www.jstor.org

Neils, Jenifer. "The Twain Shall Meet." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 6 (1985): 326-59. no. 72 www.jstor.org

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. p. 24-25, fig. 31 www.jstor.org

Korkow, Cory. "Textiles." In William Morris: Designing an Earthly Paradise. Cory Korkow and Victoria Hepburn, 8-23. Cleveland, Ohio : Cleveland Museum of Art, 2017 . Mentioned: p. 19; reproduced: p. 20, fig. 14.

Exhibition history

The Twain Shall Meet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986).

William Morris: Designing an Earthly Paradise. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24, 2017-January 14, 2019).

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