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Source Description
Around 1400 an emerging interest in the bucolic world of nature encouraged a new trend among textile designers, as seen in the lions, hawks, dogs, and ducks on this luxury silk fragment. The continual influence of Chinese asymmetry, however, is evident in the prominent undulating palmette trees, enlarged from sinuous vines frequently seen in Italian silks and velvets from this period.
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Document identity
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125342
label
Chasuble Fragment with Realistic Animals
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125342
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object
title
Chasuble Fragment with Realistic Animals
description
Around 1400 an emerging interest in the bucolic world of nature encouraged a new trend among textile designers, as seen in the lions, hawks, dogs, and ducks on this luxury silk fragment. The continual influence of Chinese asymmetry, however, is evident in the prominent undulating palmette trees, enlarged from sinuous vines frequently seen in Italian silks and velvets from this period.
date
c. 1420
rights
CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60763085
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Textile
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 115.6 x 33.7 cm (45 1/2 x 13 1/4 in.); Mounted: 120.7 x 36.8 cm (47 1/2 x 14 1/2 in.)
cul
Italy
accession
1947.294
Source extras
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Silk, gold thread; lampas weave
tombstone
Chasuble Fragment with Realistic Animals, c. 1420. Italy. Silk, gold thread; lampas weave; overall: 115.6 x 33.7 cm (45 1/2 x 13 1/4 in.); mounted: 120.7 x 36.8 cm (47 1/2 x 14 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1947.294
collection
T - Ecclesiastical
citations
citation
Shepherd, Dorothy G. "A Fifteenth-Century Italian Textile." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 35, no. 3 (1948): 46-44.
page_number
p. 46-48
url
www.jstor.org/stable/25141449.
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. 139, no. 124
citation
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts. Aspects of Late Mediaeval Art; The Mediaeval Conference, the Ohio State University. 1958.
page_number
no. 5 (under textiles)
citation
Bunt, Cyril G. E. Venetian Fabrics. Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, 1959.
page_number
figs. 5-6
citation
"Gothic Art 1360-1440." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 50, no. 7 (1963): 174-215.
page_number
no. 102, pp. 190, 215
url
Accessed July 18, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/25151960.
citation
Müller, Kathrin. <em>Musterhaft naturgetreu: Tiere in Seiden, Zeichnungen und Tapisserien des 14. und 15.</em> <em>Jahrhunderts.</em> Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2020.
page_number
Reproduced: P. 166, farabb. 25
creditline
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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2026-05-29 06:28:33.301000
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125342
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Textiles
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T - Ecclesiastical
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Silk, gold thread; lampas weave
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