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Document identity
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127872
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Cap
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127872
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object
title
Cap
date
1300s
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60763546
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Textile
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 11.4 x 16.5 x 16.5 cm (4 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.)
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Syria or Egypt, Mamluk Dynasty (1250–1517)
accession
1950.51
Source extras
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lampas, quilted: silk
tombstone
Cap, 1300s. Syria or Egypt, Mamluk Dynasty (1250–1517). Lampas, quilted: silk; overall: 11.4 x 16.5 x 16.5 cm (4 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1950.510
collection
T - Islamic
inscriptions
inscription
1) Glory to our Lord, the Sultan
2) Glory to our Lord, the Sultan al-Malik, al-Nasir
didYouKnow
The winter-weight quilted cap was part of a set with a matching quilted vest.
citations
citation
Atil, Esin. Renaissance of Islam: Art of the Mamluks, (Washington D.C., 1981), no. 117, p. 234.
citation
Wardwell, Anne E. "Flight of the Phoenix: Crosscurrents in Late Thirteenth- to Fourtheenth-Century Silk Patterns and Motifs," CMA Bulletin 74 (Jan. 1987) 20 - 21, illus. p. 21.
citation
Wardwell, Anne E. "Flight of the Phoenix: Crosscurrents in Late Thirteenth- to Fourteenth-Century Silk Patterns and Motifs." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 74, no. 1 (1987): 2-35. Accessed February 16, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159970.
page_number
fig. 25, p. 21
citation
de Moor A., Cäcilia Fluck and Petra Linscheid. <em>Excavating, Analysing, Reconstructing: Textiles of the 1st Millennium AD from Egypt and Neighbouring Countries : Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Research Group 'Textiles from the Nile Valley', Antwerp, 27-29 November 2015.</em> Tielt, Belgium: Lannoo, 2017.
page_number
Mentionwed: p. 168, note 3
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. 262, fig. 7.21; Mentioned: P. 263
citation
Berzock, Kathleen Bickford. <em>Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange Across Medieval Saharan Africa</em>. Evanston, IL: Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University: in association with Princeton University Press, 2019.
citation
Mühlemann, Corinne. <em>Complex Weaves: Technique, Text, and Cultural History of Striped Silks.</em> Affalterbach: Didymos-Verlag, 2023.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 14, fig. 3.1, p. 16, p. 85, p. 113-116, p. 119; Mentioned and reproduced: p. 196-197, no. 3, figs. 3.1-3.4
creditline
John L. Severance Fund
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2026-05-29 06:35:58.946000
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127872
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Textiles
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T - Islamic
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lampas, quilted: silk
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