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149006
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Silk Fragment
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149006
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object
title
Silk Fragment
date
1350–99
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CC0
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CC0
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en
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Q79929709
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Textile
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Overall: 25 x 35.5 cm (9 13/16 x 14 in.)
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Italy
accession
1977.16
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Silk and gold thread: lampas weave, brocaded
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Silk Fragment, 1350–99. Italy. Silk and gold thread: lampas weave, brocaded; overall: 25 x 35.5 cm (9 13/16 x 14 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1977.16
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Textiles
inscriptions
inscription
oval cartouches contain arabic in distorted Naskhi: "al-sultan."
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. 29, fig. 36, 36a
url
www.jstor.org/stable/25159970.
citation
Müller, Kathrin. <em>Musterhaft naturgetreu: Tiere in Seiden, Zeichnungen und Tapisserien des 14. und 15.</em> <em>Jahrhunderts.</em> Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2020.
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Reproduced: P. 164, farabb. 22
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Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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2026-05-29 07:39:11.219000
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149006
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Textiles
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Silk and gold thread: lampas weave, brocaded
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