Collection Online as of February 2, 2023

Silk Fragments

1200s

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Spain, Islamic period or Mudejar, 13th century

Lampas weave, brocaded; silk and gold thread

Average: 68.6 x 64.4 cm (27 x 25 3/8 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1952.106

Location

not on view

Provenance

(Charles D. Kelekian, New York).

Citations

Shepherd, Dorothy G. “Two Medieval Silks from Spain.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 45, no. 1, 1958, pp. 3–7. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 3-7 www.jstor.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 219 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 219 archive.org

Bornstein, Christine Verzár, and Priscilla Parsons Soucek. The Meeting of Two Worlds: The Crusades and the Mediterranean Context : [Exhibition], the University of Michigan Museum of Art, May 9-September 27, 1981. Ann Arbor: The Museum, 1981. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 6, p. 28