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Source Description
This rare, gold-thread silk displays a sophisticated pattern that also decorates the stucco walls of the Alhambra, the imperial palace in Granada. Three superimposed designs form the harmonious pattern on the golden ground. Split-palmette leaves in ivory or green silk form staggered arches displaying a crimson text, <em>Good fortune</em>, written in angular Arabic script with extended strokes that create secondary symmetrical arches. Deep blue palmette leaves create the third level of decoration. The interior walls of the Alhambra would have shimmered with these warm, patterned textiles.
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118249
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Fragment with palmette arches with Alhambra wall pattern
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118249
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Fragment with palmette arches with Alhambra wall pattern
description
This rare, gold-thread silk displays a sophisticated pattern that also decorates the stucco walls of the Alhambra, the imperial palace in Granada. Three superimposed designs form the harmonious pattern on the golden ground. Split-palmette leaves in ivory or green silk form staggered arches displaying a crimson text, <em>Good fortune</em>, written in angular Arabic script with extended strokes that create secondary symmetrical arches. Deep blue palmette leaves create the third level of decoration. The interior walls of the Alhambra would have shimmered with these warm, patterned textiles.
date
1300s
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CC0
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CC0
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en
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Q60757227
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Textile
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dimensionsRaw
Overall: 48.3 x 25.4 cm (19 x 10 in.); Mounted: 58.1 x 35.2 cm (22 7/8 x 13 7/8 in.)
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Spain, Granada
accession
1939.35
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Silk and gilt-metal thread: lampas weave
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Fragment with palmette arches with Alhambra wall pattern, 1300s. Spain, Granada. Silk and gilt-metal thread: lampas weave; overall: 48.3 x 25.4 cm (19 x 10 in.); mounted: 58.1 x 35.2 cm (22 7/8 x 13 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1939.35
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T - Islamic
inscriptions
inscription
horizontal rows of staggered arch-like forms enclose knotted and interlaced Kufic inscriptions: "Success."
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citations
citation
Underhill, Gertrude. “Textiles from Spain and Portugal Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 16, no. 10 (December 1929): 183–185, 191.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 184; Reproduced: inside back cover
url
www.jstor.org/stable/25137255
citation
Underhill, Gertrude. "Textiles from the H. A. Elsberg Collection." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 26, no. 9 (November 1939): 143–146.
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Mentioned: p. 144
url
www.jstor.org/stable/25138043
citation
Los Angeles County Museum. <em>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</em>. New York: E. Weyhe, 1944.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 18, no. 125, pl. 35
citation
Weibel, Adèle Coulin.<em> Two Thousand Years of Textiles; The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East</em>. New York: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts [by] Pantheon Books, 1952.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 105, fig. 88
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 130
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
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Reproduced: p. 220
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
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Reproduced: p. 220
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 277
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. 199, fig. 5.31; Mentioned: P. 200
citation
Blessing, Patricia."Draping, Wrapping, Hanging: Transposing Textile Materiality in the Middle Ages." <em>The Textile Museum Journal </em>45, (2018): 2-21.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 12, fig. 6
creditline
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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2026-06-04 11:04:10.195000
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118249
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Textiles
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Silk and gilt-metal thread: lampas weave
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