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Collection Online as of March 24, 2024

Fragment with jewel-like silk

Fragment with jewel-like silk

800s
Overall: 17.1 x 12.7 cm (6 3/4 x 5 in.)
Location: not on view

Description

This fragment is brocaded in a jewel-toned silks: red, rose, turquoise, salmon pink, pale pink, golden tan, green, dark blue, and dark brown. Flat strips of gold foil were wound on tan silk strands to create gold thread adding to the luxuriousness of the brocade.
  • ?-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
  • Kühnel, Ernst. "Abbasid Silks of the Ninth Century." Ars Orientalis 2 (1957): 367-71. pp. 367-71, fig. 12 4629042.
    Wilckens, Leonie von. Die textilen Künste: von der Spätantike bis um 1500. München: C.H. Beck, 1991. p. 84, no. 86
    Baker, Patricia L. Islamic Textiles. London: British Museum Press, 1995. pp. 34-35
    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. 70, fig. 2.31; Mentioned: P. 70, 215
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