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Source Description
The motif shown here depicts the Virgin Mary and the angel Gabriel in a repeating sequence. Both figures kneel above a bed of flowers while a dove representing the Holy Ghost hovers above. The ground of this luxury silk, woven with highlights of gold thread, is now a faded blue. Its original purpose is not clear, but it may have originally been part of an altar frontal or possibly an ecclesiastical cope, or cape.
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112965
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Textile Fragment with the Annunciation
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112965
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object
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Textile Fragment with the Annunciation
description
The motif shown here depicts the Virgin Mary and the angel Gabriel in a repeating sequence. Both figures kneel above a bed of flowers while a dove representing the Holy Ghost hovers above. The ground of this luxury silk, woven with highlights of gold thread, is now a faded blue. Its original purpose is not clear, but it may have originally been part of an altar frontal or possibly an ecclesiastical cope, or cape.
date
1370–1400
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CC0
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CC0
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en
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Q60744547
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Textile
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1
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Overall: 23.2 x 47.6 cm (9 1/8 x 18 3/4 in.); Mounted: 28.6 x 53.3 cm (11 1/4 x 21 in.)
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Italy
accession
1931.61
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Silk with gold thread; lampas weave
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Textile Fragment with the Annunciation, 1370–1400. Italy. Silk with gold thread; lampas weave; overall: 23.2 x 47.6 cm (9 1/8 x 18 3/4 in.); mounted: 28.6 x 53.3 cm (11 1/4 x 21 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1931.61
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T - Ecclesiastical
citations
citation
Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire (Belgium), and Isabelle Errera. Catalogue d'étoffes anciennes et modernes décrites par Isabelle Errera. Bruxelles: Vromant, 1927.
citation
Gertrude Underhill. "Two Fifteenth Century Brocades." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 18, no. 4 (1931):
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64-69.
url
Accessed June 28, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/25137377.
citation
Underhill, Gertrude. "Textiles from the H. A. Elsberg Collection." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 26, no. 9 (1939): 143-46.
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p. 143-146
url
www.jstor.org/stable/25138043
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Los Angeles County Museum. 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. 1944.
page_number
p. 15, catalog number 102
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Weibel, Adèle Coulin. Two Thousand Years of Textiles; The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East. New York: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts [by] Pantheon Books, 1952.
page_number
p. 137, catalog number 206
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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. 164
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Detroit Institute of Arts, and Paul L. Grigaut. Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance, 1400-1600; The Detroit Institute of Arts [Exhibition] November 18, 1958-January 4, 1959. 1958.
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p. 79, catalog number 174
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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. 80
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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. 80
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Wardwell, Anne E. 1977. “The Stylistic Development of 14th- and 15th-Century Italian Silk Design.” <em>Aachener Kunstblätter / Hrsg. Im Auftr. Des Vorstandes Des Aachener Museumsvereins</em> 47.1976/77(1977), 177-226.
page_number
p. 189-191, fig. 21
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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. 66
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Martin Nagy, Rebecca. Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985.
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p. 26, 58
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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
p. 3-22
creditline
Dudley P. Allen Fund
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2026-06-13 11:47:05.419000
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112965
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Textiles
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T - Ecclesiastical
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Silk with gold thread; lampas weave
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