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Source Description
This silk fragment displays a revolutionary new fashion in Italian textile design, influenced by the exotic patterns in silks imported from China, Byzantium, and Islamic countries of the Middle East. Beginning in the 1320s, instead of the static arrangement of motifs stacked one above the other, Italian designers staggered the motifs, creating asymmetry and movement. Even this fragment suggests motion through the arrangement of motifs in a curved lattice layout. However, the actual motifs—the grape leaves and bunches of grapes—remain typically Italian.
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146182
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Silk fragment with scrolling vines, grape leaves, grapes, and birds
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146182
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Silk fragment with scrolling vines, grape leaves, grapes, and birds
description
This silk fragment displays a revolutionary new fashion in Italian textile design, influenced by the exotic patterns in silks imported from China, Byzantium, and Islamic countries of the Middle East. Beginning in the 1320s, instead of the static arrangement of motifs stacked one above the other, Italian designers staggered the motifs, creating asymmetry and movement. Even this fragment suggests motion through the arrangement of motifs in a curved lattice layout. However, the actual motifs—the grape leaves and bunches of grapes—remain typically Italian.
date
1325–50
citation
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60755673
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Textile
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 24.1 x 25.4 cm (9 1/2 x 10 in.); Mounted: 42.2 x 43.2 cm (16 5/8 x 17 in.)
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Italy
accession
1971.75
Source extras
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Silk: lampas weave
tombstone
Silk fragment with scrolling vines, grape leaves, grapes, and birds, 1325–50. Italy. Silk: lampas weave; overall: 24.1 x 25.4 cm (9 1/2 x 10 in.); mounted: 42.2 x 43.2 cm (16 5/8 x 17 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Florence and Charles Abel Oriental Rug Collection by exchange, 1971.75
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Textiles
citations
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 (1987): 2-35.
page_number
p. 23, fig. 28
url
www.jstor.org/stable/25159970.
citation
Wardwell, Anne E. "Panni Tartarici: Eastern Islamic Silks Woven with Gold and Silver (13th and 14th Centuries)." In <em>Islamic Art III, </em>95-173. New York: The Islamic Art Foundation, 1989.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 95-173; Reproduced: Fig. 69
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
Mentioned and reproduced: P. 238-239, fig. 6.26
creditline
Florence and Charles Abel Oriental Rug Collection by exchange
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2026-05-29 07:30:06.230000
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146182
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Textiles
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Textiles
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Silk: lampas weave
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