The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of January 27, 2023

Fragment

1300s

Iran or Iraq ?, Mongol period, 14th century

Lampas, silk and gold thread

Overall: 26.7 x 14 cm (10 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1945.34

Location

not on view

Provenance
(Adolph Loewi, Los Angeles).
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. 13 www.jstor.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
Exhibition history

2000 Years of Silk Weaving. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 18-April 16, 1944); Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (May 12-June 4, 1944); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (January 9-February 29, 1944). (before CMA accessioned).

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

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1945.34