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{
    "localId": "118330",
    "label": "Mantle for a Statue of the Virgin with Lotus Blossoms and Medallions",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

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    "id": "118330",
    "contentType": "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": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.40",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Textile"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1939.40/1939.40_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1939.40/1939.40_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1939.40/1939.40_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "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.)",
    "cul": [
        "Egypt and Spain",
        "Egypt"
    ],
    "accession": "1939.4"
}

{
    "tec": "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.",
            "sortorder": 1
        },
        {
            "inscription": "The sultan, the king",
            "inscription_remark": "Inscription in the lobed roundels",
            "sortorder": 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",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n130"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Schmidt, Heinrich Jakob. <em>Alte Seidenstoffe; ein Handbuch für Sammler und Liebhaber</em>. Braunschweig: Klinkhardt &amp; 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",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n238"
        },
        {
            "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",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n238"
        },
        {
            "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",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n290"
        },
        {
            "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",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2014-01"
        },
        {
            "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"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.40",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-06-10 17:58:01.491000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1939.40/1939.40_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 118330,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Islamic",
    "med": "Silk and gilt-metal thread: lampas weave",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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