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Taqueté fragment with star and cross pattern

1200s

Spain, probably Almeria

Taqueté: silk and gold thread

Average: 14 x 41 cm (5 1/2 x 16 1/8 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1927.380

Location

not on view

Provenance
(Adolph Loewi, Venice). Pieces of same silk used as patches on San Valero vestments in Barcelona Museum which, according to documentary evidence, were bought in 1279 in Tarragona and given to the church of San Vincent, Roda (near Lerida) and dedicated to San Valero.
Citations
Underhill, Gertrude. “A Group of Hispano-Moresque Silks.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 15, no. 3 (1928): 68–74. Reproduced: P. 70 www.jstor.org
Los Angeles County Museum. 2000 Years of Silk Weaving: An Exhibition Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Museum in Collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York: E. Weyhe,1944. Reproduced: P. 17, cat. no. 116, pl. 32
May, Florence Lewis. Silk Textiles of Spain, Eighth to Fifteenth Century. New York: Printed by order of the trustees, the Hispanic Society of America, 1957. Reproduced: P. 77, figs. 50-51
Indictor, Norman, Robert J. (Robert John) Koestler, Christopher Blair, and Anne E. Wardwell. “The Evaluation of Metal Wrappings from Medieval Textiles Using Scanning Electron Microscopy-Energy Dispersive x-Ray Spectrometry.” Textile History 19, no 1 (Spring 1988): 3-22. p. 3-22
Flury-Lemberg, Mechthild. Spuren Kostbarer Gewebe. Riggisberg: Die Stiftung, 1995. Reproduced: P. 71
Mackie, Louise W. Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 186, fig. 5.19
Exhibition history

Vestment of San Valero of Llerida. Abegg-Stiftung, Riggisberg, Switzerland (May 3-November 1, 1992).

The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).

2000 Years of Silk Weaving. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 18-April 16, 1944).

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