The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 19, 2024

Cap

Cap

1300s
Overall: 11.4 x 16.5 x 16.5 cm (4 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.)
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

The winter-weight quilted cap was part of a set with a matching quilted vest.
  • ?–1950
    (Dr. Emil Delmar [1876–1959], Budapest, Hungary and New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1950–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Atil, Esin. Renaissance of Islam: Art of the Mamluks, (Washington D.C., 1981), no. 117, p. 234.
    Wardwell, Anne E. "Flight of the Phoenix: Crosscurrents in Late Thirteenth- to Fourtheenth-Century Silk Patterns and Motifs," CMA Bulletin 74 (Jan. 1987) 20 - 21, illus. p. 21.
    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. Accessed February 16, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159970. fig. 25, p. 21 www.jstor.org
    de Moor A., Cäcilia Fluck and Petra Linscheid. Excavating, Analysing, Reconstructing: Textiles of the 1st Millennium AD from Egypt and Neighbouring Countries : Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Research Group 'Textiles from the Nile Valley', Antwerp, 27-29 November 2015. Tielt, Belgium: Lannoo, 2017. Mentionwed: p. 168, note 3
    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. 262, fig. 7.21; Mentioned: P. 263
    Berzock, Kathleen Bickford. Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange Across Medieval Saharan Africa. Evanston, IL: Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University: in association with Princeton University Press, 2019.
    Mühlemann, Corinne. Complex Weaves: Technique, Text, and Cultural History of Striped Silks. Affalterbach: Didymos-Verlag, 2023. Mentioned: p. 14, fig. 3.1, p. 16, p. 85, p. 113-116, p. 119; Mentioned and reproduced: p. 196-197, no. 3, figs. 3.1-3.4
  • Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa. National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC (October 15, 2020-July 30, 2021).
    Luxuriance: Silks from Islamic Lands, 1250-1900. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 14, 2013-June 23, 2014).
    Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 26-June 6, 1991).
    Renaissance of Islam: Art of the Mamluks. Smithsonian Institution, Washington; Minneapolis; New York; Cincinnati; Detroit; Sacramento; San Diego; Phoenix; Hartford (May 1981-May 1983).
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