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Roundels with Hunters

800s

Eastern Iran or Central Asia

Silk; samite weave

Overall: 26.5 x 25.5 cm (10 7/16 x 10 1/16 in.)

Gift of The Textile Art Alliance 1959.124

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This textile consists of two fragments mounted together (1959.124 and 1982.284). The two roundels have different diameters, even though the number of warps per repeat is the same.

Description

These textiles are woven with floral roundels that enclose horsemen hunting lions. The theme of horsemen hunting with lances, the floral frames of the roundels, and the costumes of the hunters were all inspired by silks from the Byzantine world. The stiff, abstracted style, however, is characteristic of Sogdian silks. Silks woven in Sogdiana were often traded to distant markets. These fragments were preserved in an Egyptian grave where they were found sewn as ornaments onto a tunic.

Provenance

?-1959

(Mrs. Paul [Marguerite] Mallon [d. 1977], Paris, France, sold to the Textile Art Alliance for gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1959-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Shepherd, Dorothy G. “Medieval Persian Silks in Fact and Fancy: A Refutation of the Riggisberg Report.” Bulletin Du Cieta, Centre International D'étude Des Textiles Anciens 1974, no. 39-40 Reproduced and mentioned: p. 131, fig. 53

Shepherd, Dorothy G. "Medieval Persian Silks in Fact and Fancy." In Müller-Christensen, Sigrid, Mechthild Flury-Lemberg, and Karen Stolleis. Documenta textilia: Festschrift für Sigrid Müller-Christensen. München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1981. Reproduced and mentioend: p. 105-122, cat. 98, fig. 4

Wardwell, Anne E. Material Matters: Fifty Years of Gifts from the Textile Arts Club, 1934-1984. Cleveland: The Museum, 1984. Reproduced and mentioned: p. 14, cat. 16

Neils, Jenifer. "The Twain Shall Meet." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 6 (1985): 326-59. Mentioned: p. 359, no. 90 www.jstor.org

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, Reproduced and mentioned: p. 31, no. 2 archive.org

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. Reproduced: P. 63, fig. 2.26; Mentioned: P. 61

Exhibition history

Material Matters: Fifty Years of Gifts from the Textile Arts Club. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 21-December 30, 1984).

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

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).

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