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Source Description
Alternating rows of two different forms of interlacing stars set within square frames convey a jewel-like brilliance with gold and contrasting colors. This fragment was reused in an ecclesiastical vestment that made its way to the cathedral at Lleida in Catalonia, in northeastern Spain. A document dated 1275 records that the Bishop of Lleida and his companions brought “[A] complete set of vestments, of Muslim manufacture, which ornaments they dedicated to San Valero.”
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Document identity
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110045
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Vestment fragment with stars in staggered squares
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110045
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object
title
Vestment fragment with stars in staggered squares
description
Alternating rows of two different forms of interlacing stars set within square frames convey a jewel-like brilliance with gold and contrasting colors. This fragment was reused in an ecclesiastical vestment that made its way to the cathedral at Lleida in Catalonia, in northeastern Spain. A document dated 1275 records that the Bishop of Lleida and his companions brought “[A] complete set of vestments, of Muslim manufacture, which ornaments they dedicated to San Valero.”
date
1200s
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q80002373
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Textile
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 28.6 x 26.7 cm (11 1/4 x 10 1/2 in.); Mounted: 38.7 x 36.8 cm (15 1/4 x 14 1/2 in.)
cul
Spain, probably Almeria
accession
1928.648
Source extras
tec
Silk and gold thread: lampas weave with areas of double cloth
tombstone
Vestment fragment with stars in staggered squares, 1200s. Spain, probably Almeria. Silk and gold thread: lampas weave with areas of double cloth; overall: 28.6 x 26.7 cm (11 1/4 x 10 1/2 in.); mounted: 38.7 x 36.8 cm (15 1/4 x 14 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1928.648
collection
T - Islamic
citations
citation
Underhill, Gertrude. "Two Hispano-Moresque Silks from the Vestments of San Valero." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 16, no. 4 (1929): 68-75.
page_number
p. 68-70, 74
citation
Los Angeles County Museum. 2000 Years of Silk Weaving: An Exhibition Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Museum in Collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts. 1944.
page_number
p. 16, no. 115
citation
Weibel, Adèle Coulin. Two Thousand Years of Textiles; The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East. New York: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts [by] Pantheon Books, 1952.
page_number
p. 102, no. 79
citation
Flury-Lemberg, Mechthild. Spuren kostbarer Gewebe. Riggisberg: Die Stiftung, 1995.
page_number
p. 116
citation
Mackie, Louise W. <em>Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century</em>. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015.
page_number
Reproduced: P. 186, fig. 5.18; Mentioned: P.185-186
creditline
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
updatedAt
2026-05-29 05:51:37.919000
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110045
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Textiles
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T - Islamic
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Silk and gold thread: lampas weave with areas of double cloth
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