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Source Description
This textile shows the development of the Hispano-Moresque style in the 1300s. The bright green, blue, white, and gold design against a rich red ground produces a jewel-like quality that was not seen again after the end of the century.
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118366
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Lampas with foliate roundels
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118366
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title
Lampas with foliate roundels
description
This textile shows the development of the Hispano-Moresque style in the 1300s. The bright green, blue, white, and gold design against a rich red ground produces a jewel-like quality that was not seen again after the end of the century.
date
1300s
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en
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Q80013245
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Textile
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Overall: 31.4 x 22.9 cm (12 3/8 x 9 in.); Mounted: 34.3 x 27.9 cm (13 1/2 x 11 in.)
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Spain, Granada, Nasrid period
accession
1939.42
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lampas: silk and gold thread
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Lampas with foliate roundels, 1300s. Spain, Granada, Nasrid period. Lampas: silk and gold thread; overall: 31.4 x 22.9 cm (12 3/8 x 9 in.); mounted: 34.3 x 27.9 cm (13 1/2 x 11 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1939.42
collection
T - Islamic
citations
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.
page_number
p. 144
url
www.jstor.org/stable/25138043
citation
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. 18, no. 129, pl. 36
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. 131
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.
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p. 3-22
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. 201, fig. 5.34; Mentioned: P. 200.
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Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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2026-05-29 06:07:39.148000
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118366
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Textiles
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T - Islamic
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lampas: silk and gold thread
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