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Silk fragment
1100s
Overall: 36.8 x 23.5 cm (14 1/2 x 9 1/4 in.); Mounted: 47 x 33.7 cm (18 1/2 x 13 1/4 in.)
Dudley P. Allen Fund 1937.23
Location: Not on view
Description
Silk of double cloth weave with design of lengthwise bands of ornament between bands of inscription.- ?–1937(Mrs. Paul Mallon [d. 1977], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1937–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Pope, Arthur Upham, Phyllis Ackerman, and Theodore Bestermann. A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present. London: Oxford University Press, 1938. v. III no. 29, pp. 2012, 2035, fig. 647Underhill, Gertrude. "Two Early Iranian Silks." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 25, no. 3 (March 1938). pp. 42–45 25137913Los 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. 7, pl. 15Los 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. no. 52, pl. 15Weibel, Adèle Coulin. Two Thousand Years of Textiles; The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East. New York: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts [by] Pantheon Books, 1952. no. 111The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 688 archive.orgJairazbhoy, R. A. Oriental Influences in Western Art. New York: Asia Pub. House, 1965. Reproduced: pl. 72The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 214 archive.orgWehrahn-Stauch, L. "Animal Motifs on Fabrics [Animaux d l'Ancient Orient, Le Cahiers CIBA]," CIBA Review (1967), p. 12, pl. 5.The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 214 archive.orgEttinghausen, Richard. From Byzantium to Sasanian Iran and the Islamic World; Three Modes of Artistic Influence. Leiden: Brill, 1972. Reproduced: pl. XVI, fig. 56Mackie, 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. 149, fig. 4.20; Mentioned: pp. 33,147, 148, 204, 215Mühlemann, Corinne. Complex Weaves: Technique, Text, and Cultural History of Striped Silks. Affalterbach: Didymos-Verlag, 2023. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 49–50, fig. 16
- The Tree of Life. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 7-March 8, 1955).2000 Years of Silk Weaving. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 18-April 16, 1944).
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