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Instead of international designs, this splendid gold-thread patterned silk displays a mixture of heraldic and falconry emblems. Pairs of falcons stand on a main d’aigle, a heraldic charge consisting of a bird’s wing and claw. They alternate with a panache, or plumes, from an ostrich with an ornamental interlacement at its base. Traditionally panaches were helmet or hat ornaments, but here is a heraldic crest. Although European motifs form the pattern, the dramatic energy of asymmetrical Chinese design persists.
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Document identity
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123031
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Gold-patterned Silk with Falcons and Heraldry
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123031
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title
Gold-patterned Silk with Falcons and Heraldry
description
Instead of international designs, this splendid gold-thread patterned silk displays a mixture of heraldic and falconry emblems. Pairs of falcons stand on a main d’aigle, a heraldic charge consisting of a bird’s wing and claw. They alternate with a panache, or plumes, from an ostrich with an ornamental interlacement at its base. Traditionally panaches were helmet or hat ornaments, but here is a heraldic crest. Although European motifs form the pattern, the dramatic energy of asymmetrical Chinese design persists.
date
1360–1400
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79899938
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Textile
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1
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dimensionsRaw
Overall: 40.3 x 24.8 cm (15 7/8 x 9 3/4 in.); Mounted: 45.1 x 28.6 cm (17 3/4 x 11 1/4 in.)
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Italy, last third of 14th century
accession
1943.283
Source extras
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Silk, gold thread; a combination of two weaves (lampas)
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Gold-patterned Silk with Falcons and Heraldry, 1360–1400. Italy, last third of 14th century. Silk, gold thread; a combination of two weaves (lampas); overall: 40.3 x 24.8 cm (15 7/8 x 9 3/4 in.); mounted: 45.1 x 28.6 cm (17 3/4 x 11 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1943.283
collection
Textiles
citations
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. 15, pl. 29, no. 101
citation
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. 138, no 210
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. 30, fig. 38
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www.jstor.org/stable/25159970
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Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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2026-05-29 06:19:53.830000
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123031
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Textiles
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Textiles
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Silk, gold thread; a combination of two weaves (lampas)
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