The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of February 3, 2023

Silk Fragments

1350–1399

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Italy, Lucchese, second half of 14th century

Lampas weave, brocaded; silk and gold thread

Overall: 35.9 x 14.9 cm (14 1/8 x 5 7/8 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1939.41.b

Location

not on view

Provenance
H. A. Elsberg Collection.
Citations
Wardwell, A. (1987). Flight of the Phoenix: Crosscurrents in Late Thirteenth- to Fourteenth-Century Silk Patterns and Motifs. The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 74(1), 2-35. p. 2-35, fig. 29 www.jstor.org
Exhibition history

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

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