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Source Description
This costly royal silk with extensive gold thread was woven in Egypt and gifted or exported to Spain, where it was pieced into this mantle for a statue of the Virgin, probably to be worn during festivals and processions. <br><br>The sturdy silk brocade foundation cloth was also woven with a lighter weight silk damask with a repeating mirror image. Therefore, the Arabic inscription in the medallions reads both forward and backward: <em>Glory to our master, the sultan, the king</em>. The inscribed lobed roundels say <em>The sultan, the king</em>.
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Document identity
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118330
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Mantle for a Statue of the Virgin with Lotus Blossoms and Medallions
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118330
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object
title
Mantle for a Statue of the Virgin with Lotus Blossoms and Medallions
description
This costly royal silk with extensive gold thread was woven in Egypt and gifted or exported to Spain, where it was pieced into this mantle for a statue of the Virgin, probably to be worn during festivals and processions. <br><br>The sturdy silk brocade foundation cloth was also woven with a lighter weight silk damask with a repeating mirror image. Therefore, the Arabic inscription in the medallions reads both forward and backward: <em>Glory to our master, the sultan, the king</em>. The inscribed lobed roundels say <em>The sultan, the king</em>.
date
c. 1430
citation
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CC0
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CC0
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en
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Textile
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 70.5 x 111.2 cm (27 3/4 x 43 3/4 in.); Mounted: 78.1 x 119.4 cm (30 3/4 x 47 in.)
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Egypt and Spain
Egypt
accession
1939.4
Source extras
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Silk and gilt-metal thread: lampas weave
tombstone
Mantle for a Statue of the Virgin with Lotus Blossoms and Medallions, c. 1430. Egypt and Spain. Silk and gilt-metal thread: lampas weave; overall: 70.5 x 111.2 cm (27 3/4 x 43 3/4 in.); mounted: 78.1 x 119.4 cm (30 3/4 x 47 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1939.40
collection
T - Islamic
inscriptions
inscription
Glory to our master, the sultan, the king
inscription_remark
The Arabic inscription in the medallions reads both forward and backward.
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1
inscription
The sultan, the king
inscription_remark
Inscription in the lobed roundels
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2
citations
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.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 144–145; Reproduced: p. 142
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: pl. 66, no. 291
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. 715
citation
Schmidt, Heinrich Jakob. <em>Alte Seidenstoffe; ein Handbuch für Sammler und Liebhaber</em>. Braunschweig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1958.
page_number
Reproduced: fig. 137
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 214
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 214
citation
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. 270
citation
Atıl, Esin. <em>Renaissance of Islam: Art of the Mamluks</em>. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981.
page_number
no. 116, pp. 232–233
citation
Wardwell, Anne E. "Flight of the Phoenix: Crosscurrents in Late Thirteenth- to Fourteenth-Century Silk Patterns and Motifs." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 74, no. 1 (January 1987): 2–35.
page_number
p. 22, fig. 27
url
www.jstor.org/stable/25159970
citation
Indictor, Norman, Robert J. (Robert John) Koestler, Christopher Blair, and Anne E. Wardwell. “The Evaluation of Metal Wrappings from Medieval Textiles Using Scanning Electron Microscopy-Energy Dispersive x-Ray Spectrometry.” <em>Textile History</em> 19 (1). 1988.
page_number
pp. 3–22
citation
“A Walking Tour: The entire new museum wing by wing, with curators calling out a few favorite works in the collection.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 54, no. 1 (January/February 2014): 8–33.
page_number
Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 27
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: pp. 240, 270–271, fig. 7.31; Mentioned: p. 270
citation
Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 29
citation
Flood, Finbarr Barry, and Gülru Necipoğlu, eds. <em>A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture. </em>Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2017.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 987
citation
Peinado, Laura Rodriguez. "Los Textiles Como Objetos de Lujo y de Intercambio." In <em>Las Artes en Al-Andalus y Egipto: Contextos e Intercambios. Susana </em>Calvo Capilla, ed. Madrid: Ediciones de La Ergástula, 2017.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 199; Reproduced: p. 200
citation
Akin, Esra. <em>Muthanna / History, Theory, and Aesthetics</em>. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2020.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 138, fig. 5.8
citation
Clarke, Sarah E. Braddock, and Ryoko Yamanaka Kondo. <em>Byzantine Silk on the Silk Roads: Journeys between East and West, Past and Present</em>. London; New York: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 92, fig. 7.5
citation
Pregla, Barbara, Anja Preiss, and Evemarie Schaper. <em>Die Textilien im Domschatz zu Halberstadt: Bestandskatalog.</em> [Riggisberg, Switzerland]: Abegg-Stiftung, 2025.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 286, n. 18, vol. 2
creditline
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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2026-06-10 17:58:01.491000
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118330
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Textiles
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Silk and gilt-metal thread: lampas weave
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