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Source Description
Although geometric patterns were fashionable in all media throughout the Islamic world, examples in textiles are the most abundant from Islamic Spain. In this fragment, gold-thread strapwork interlaces to form stars above columns that frame colorful palmette leaves in a fine tapestry weave.
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Document identity
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129207
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Fragment with arcade and palmettes
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129207
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object
title
Fragment with arcade and palmettes
description
Although geometric patterns were fashionable in all media throughout the Islamic world, examples in textiles are the most abundant from Islamic Spain. In this fragment, gold-thread strapwork interlaces to form stars above columns that frame colorful palmette leaves in a fine tapestry weave.
date
1200s
rights
CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60759650
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Textile
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 17.8 x 10.8 cm (7 x 4 1/4 in.); Mounted: 26.4 x 19.7 cm (10 3/8 x 7 3/4 in.)
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Spain, probably Granada
accession
1952.105
Source extras
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Silk and gold thread: tapestry weave
tombstone
Fragment with arcade and palmettes, 1200s. Spain, probably Granada. Silk and gold thread: tapestry weave; overall: 17.8 x 10.8 cm (7 x 4 1/4 in.); mounted: 26.4 x 19.7 cm (10 3/8 x 7 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1952.105
collection
T - Islamic
citations
citation
Guiffrey, Jules, and Gaston Migeon. <em>La collection Kelekian. Étoffes & tapis d'Orient & de Venise</em>. Paris: Librairie centrale des beaux-arts, 1900.
page_number
pl. 20
citation
May, Florence Lewis. <em>Silk Textiles of Spain, Eighth to Fifteenth Century</em>. New York: Printed by order of the trustees, the Hispanic Society of America, 1957.
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p. 68, 70, fig. 43
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. 126
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
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Reproduced: p. 219
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
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Reproduced: p. 219
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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. 277
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. 191, fig. 5.24; Mentioned: P.189, 192
creditline
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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2026-05-29 06:40:05.833000
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129207
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Textiles
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T - Islamic
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Silk and gold thread: tapestry weave
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