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Silk fragment

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.)
Location: not on view

Description

Silk of double cloth weave with design of lengthwise bands of ornament between bands of inscription.
  • 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. 1944. no. 52, pl. 15
    Underhill, Gertrude. "Two Early Iranian Silks," The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art," (March 1938): 42 - 43.
    Pope, Arthur Upham, A Survey of Persian Art, III, (New York, 1939), no. 29, pp 2012, 2035, fig. 647.
    Weibel, Adele Coulin, 2000 Years of Silk Weaving (New York, 1944), no. 52., pl. 15.
    Weibel, Adele Coulin. Two Thousand Years of Textile (New York: 1952), no. 111.
    Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art (1958) no. 688, pg. 214.
    Jairazbhoy, R.A. Oriental Influences in Western Art (Bombay, 1965) pl. 72.
    Wehrahn-Stauch, L. "Animal Motifs on Fabrics [Animaux d l'Ancient Orient, Le Cahiers CIBA]," CIBA Review (1967), p. 12, pl. 5.
    Ettinghausen, R.E., From Byzantium to Sasanian, Iran and the Islamic World, (Leiden, 1972), pl. XVI, fig. 56.
    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. 647
    Underhill, Gertrude. "Two Early Iranian Silks." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 25, no. 3 (1938). p. 42-45 25137913.
    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. 1944. p. 7, repr. pl. 15
    Weibel, 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. 111
    The 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.org
    Jairazbhoy, R. A. Oriental Influences in Western Art. New York: Asia Pub. House, 1965. pl. 72
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 214 archive.org
    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.org
    Ettinghausen, Richard. From Byzantium to Sasanian Iran and the Islamic World; Three Modes of Artistic Influence. Leiden: Brill, 1972. pl. XVI, fig. 56
    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. 149, fig. 4.20; Mentioned: P. 33,147, 148, 204, 215
    Mühlemann, Corinne. Complex Weaves: Technique, Text, and Cultural History of Striped Silks. Affalterbach: Didymos-Verlag,2023. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 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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