The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Tiraz with gold
1075–99
Overall: 29 x 14.8 cm (11 7/16 x 5 13/16 in.)
Location: not on view
Description
Gold thread forms the background of undecipherable texts and interlaced medallions in two tripartite bands woven with silk in slit-tapestry weave on a dark blue-green sharb linen ground. Sharb is a fine linen, which often formed the ground fabric for ṭirāz. Roosters, hens, and confronted chicks decorate the medallions.- Mrs. Paul Mallon, Paris.
- 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. 104, fig. 3.21; Mentioned: P. 105, 215
- The Year in Review for 1982. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 6, 1983).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1982.103