The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 25, 2025
Fragment, probably from a large hanging
900s–1000s
Overall: 17.5 x 16 cm (6 7/8 x 6 5/16 in.)
Gift of The Textile Arts Club 1959.122
Location: Not on view
Description
This fragment preserves the forepaws of what must have been a very large-scale lion. Beneath it is a bit of another motif which can no longer be identified. The ground is a soft grayish-blue, the design pale yellow and white, and the leaflike projections on the lower motif are aqua. The design is oriented in the warp direction.The technique is the usual tapestry weave with slit and dovetail joins. The weave is very fine; the wefts are tightly beaten up. There is limited use of eccentric weaving.
- ?–1959(Mme Paul [Marguerite] Mallon [d. 1977], Paris, France, sold to the Textile Art Alliance for gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1959–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 46, no. 10 (December 1959): 210–231. Mentioned: p. 231; Reproduced: p. 214 [incorrectly identified as 1959.48]Wardwell, Anne E. Material Matters: Fifty Years of Gifts from the Textile Arts Club, 1934-1984 : [Exhibition] 21 November-30 December 1984, the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Museum, 1984. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 25, cat. no. 17
- Material Matters: Fifty Years of Gifts from the Textile Arts Club. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 21-December 30, 1984).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1959.122