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Source Description
This fragment depicts parallel undulating vines with large peonies with yellow centers, smaller peonies with blue centers, and clusters of flowers.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
119004
label
Silk Fragment
core
obj
dtoType
object
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1
Source metadata
id
119004
contentType
object
title
Silk Fragment
description
This fragment depicts parallel undulating vines with large peonies with yellow centers, smaller peonies with blue centers, and clusters of flowers.
date
1350–99
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60745750
genreSpecific
Textile
imageCount
1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 20.3 x 40.6 cm (8 x 16 in.); Mounted: 30.5 x 50.8 cm (12 x 20 in.)
cul
Italy, second half of 14th century
accession
1940.1193
Source extras
tec
Silk and gold thread; lampas weave
tombstone
Silk Fragment, 1350–99. Italy, second half of 14th century. Silk and gold thread; lampas weave; overall: 20.3 x 40.6 cm (8 x 16 in.); mounted: 30.5 x 50.8 cm (12 x 20 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1940.1193
collection
Textiles
citations
citation
Underhill, Gertrude. "Two Fourteenth-Century Italian Silks." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 28, no. 9 (1941): 138-43.
page_number
p. 138-39
url
www.jstor.org/stable/25140953
citation
Neils, Jenifer. "The Twain Shall Meet." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 72, no. 6 (1985): 326-59.
page_number
no. 72
url
www.jstor.org/stable/25159914.
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 (1987): 2-35.
page_number
p. 24-25, fig. 31
url
www.jstor.org/stable/25159970
citation
Korkow, Cory. "Textiles." In <em>William Morris: Designing an Earthly Paradise.</em> Cory Korkow and Victoria Hepburn, 8-23. Cleveland, Ohio : Cleveland Museum of Art, 2017 .
page_number
Mentioned: p. 19; reproduced: p. 20, fig. 14.
creditline
Dudley P. Allen Fund
updatedAt
2026-05-29 06:09:11.847000
sourceId
119004
dept
Textiles
coll
Textiles
med
Silk and gold thread; lampas weave
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image_url
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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2c82ad337085f475