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Source Description
This fragment is brocaded in a jewel-toned silks: red, rose, turquoise, salmon pink, pale pink, golden tan, green, dark blue, and dark brown. Flat strips of gold foil were wound on tan silk strands to create gold thread adding to the luxuriousness of the brocade.
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127890
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Fragment with jewel-like silk
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127890
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object
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Fragment with jewel-like silk
description
This fragment is brocaded in a jewel-toned silks: red, rose, turquoise, salmon pink, pale pink, golden tan, green, dark blue, and dark brown. Flat strips of gold foil were wound on tan silk strands to create gold thread adding to the luxuriousness of the brocade.
date
800s
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79908261
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Textile
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 17.1 x 12.7 cm (6 3/4 x 5 in.)
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Iraq, probably Baghdad
accession
1950.526
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Silk: plain weave, brocaded
tombstone
Fragment with jewel-like silk, 800s. Iraq, probably Baghdad. Silk: plain weave, brocaded; overall: 17.1 x 12.7 cm (6 3/4 x 5 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1950.526
collection
Textiles
citations
citation
Kühnel, Ernst. "Abbasid Silks of the Ninth Century." <em>Ars Orientalis</em> 2 (1957): 367-71.
page_number
pp. 367-71, fig. 12
url
www.jstor.org/stable/4629042.
citation
Wilckens, Leonie von. <em>Die textilen Künste: von der Spätantike bis um 1500</em>. München: C.H. Beck, 1991.
page_number
p. 84, no. 86
citation
Baker, Patricia L. <em>Islamic Textiles</em>. London: British Museum Press, 1995.
page_number
pp. 34-35
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. 70, fig. 2.31; Mentioned: P. 70, 215
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John L. Severance Fund
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2026-05-29 06:36:02.646000
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127890
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Textiles
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Textiles
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Silk: plain weave, brocaded
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