The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 1, 2023

Silk Fragment

1350–99

Italy

Silk and gold thread: lampas weave, brocaded

Overall: 25 x 35.5 cm (9 13/16 x 14 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1977.16

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

oval cartouches contain arabic in distorted Naskhi: "al-sultan."

Provenance
anonymous French collection
?–1977
(Loewi-Robertson, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1977–
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
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. p. 29, fig. 36, 36a www.jstor.org
Müller, Kathrin. Musterhaft naturgetreu: Tiere in Seiden, Zeichnungen und Tapisserien des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2020. Reproduced: P. 164, farabb. 22
Exhibition history

Gallery 214 installation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (removed from gallery for 3 mos. restoration)

Year in Review: 1977. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1977-January 22, 1978).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1977.16