The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of February 8, 2023

Lampas with foliate roundels

1300s

Spain, Granada, Nasrid period

Lampas: silk and gold thread

Overall: 31.4 x 22.9 cm (12 3/8 x 9 in.); Mounted: 34.3 x 27.9 cm (13 1/2 x 11 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1939.42

Location

not on view

Description

This textile shows the development of the Hispano-Moresque style in the 1300s. The bright green, blue, white, and gold design against a rich red ground produces a jewel-like quality that was not seen again after the end of the century.

Provenance
(Estate of H. A. Elsberg, New York).
Citations
Underhill, Gertrude. "Textiles from the H. A. Elsberg Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 26, no. 9 (1939): 143-46. p. 144 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. 1944. p. 18, no. 129, pl. 36
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 131 archive.org
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 (1). 1988. p. 3-22
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. 201, fig. 5.34; Mentioned: P. 200.
Exhibition history

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

Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 26-June 6, 1991).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1939.42