The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
Silk with lattice of animals in medallions
600s–800s
Overall: 25.7 x 34 cm (10 1/8 x 13 3/8 in.); Mounted: 32.4 x 40.6 cm (12 3/4 x 16 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1952.103
Location: not on view
Description
In this fragile silk, vines bearing heart-shaped florets form a diamond grid that displays different motifs in alternate rows. Pairs of ducks with ribbons flying behind their necks flank a palmette tree, showing Iranian influence, and alternate with two birds in lobed medallions. The patterns in such expensive silks were copied in less costly wool tapestry weave by Coptic weavers in Egypt.- said to have been found in Akhmim, Egypt?–1952(Mrs. Paul [Marguerite] Mallon [d. 1977], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1952–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- 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 and Mentioned: P. 47, fig. 2.3
- Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 12, 2016-May 22, 2017).Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 20, 2013-March 17, 2014).Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 16, 2002-October 27, 2003).Gallery 210 textile rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 16, 2002-October 27, 2003).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1952.103