The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 26, 2024

Silk Fragment

Silk Fragment

1350–99
Silk and gold thread; lampas weave
Overall: 20.3 x 40.6 cm (8 x 16 in.); Mounted: 30.5 x 50.8 cm (12 x 20 in.)
Dudley P. Allen Fund 1940.1193
Location: not on view

Description

This fragment depicts parallel undulating vines with large peonies with yellow centers, smaller peonies with blue centers, and clusters of flowers.
  • ?–1940
    (Adolph Loewi [1888-1977], Los Angeles, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1940–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Underhill, Gertrude. "Two Fourteenth-Century Italian Silks." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 28, no. 9 (1941): 138-43. p. 138-39 25140953
    Neils, Jenifer. "The Twain Shall Meet." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 6 (1985): 326-59. no. 72 25159914.
    Wardwell, Anne E. "Flight of the Phoenix: Crosscurrents in Late Thirteenth- to Fourteenth-Century Silk Patterns and Motifs." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 74, no. 1 (1987): 2-35. p. 24-25, fig. 31 25159970
    Korkow, Cory. "Textiles." In William Morris: Designing an Earthly Paradise. Cory Korkow and Victoria Hepburn, 8-23. Cleveland, Ohio : Cleveland Museum of Art, 2017 . Mentioned: p. 19; reproduced: p. 20, fig. 14.
  • William Morris: Designing an Earthly Paradise. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24, 2017-January 14, 2019).
    The Twain Shall Meet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986).
  • {{cite web|title=Silk Fragment|url=false|author=|year=1350–99|access-date=26 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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